Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
In Context
27If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14You shall not remove your neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in yours inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.
Job 24:2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Proverbs 24:15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:27-28
26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? We have here, as often before, a caution against suretiship, as a thing both imprudent and unjust. 1. We must not associate ourselves, nor contract an intimacy, with men of broken fortunes, and reputations, who need and will urge their friends to be bound for them, that they may cheat their neighbours to feed their lusts, and by keeping up a little… Read the whole commentary →