Proverbs 23:10
Do not move the ancient boundary stone.Do not encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Do not speak in the ears of a fool,for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
11for their Defender is strong.He will plead their case against you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty,and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast,and take a pledge of the poor,
Psalms 94:6They kill the widow and the alien,and murder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 7:5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Jeremiah 22:3Thus says the Lord: "Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:10
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. We are here directed not to cast pearls before swine ( Matt. vii. 6 ) and not to expose things sacred to the contempt and ridicule of profane scoffers. It is our duty to take all fit occasions to speak of divine things; but, 1. There are some that will make a jest of every thing, though it be ever so prudently and pertinently spoken, that will not only despise a wise man's words, but despise even the wisdom of them, that in them which… Read the whole commentary →