Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
King James Version
In Context
9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Psalms 94:6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 7:5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Jeremiah 22:3Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, 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 →