Proverbs 23:10
Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
11For their Redeemer [is] strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17'Cursed [is] he who is removing his neighbour's border, — and all the people have said, Amen.
Job 22:9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
Job 24:9They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.
Psalms 94:6Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.
Jeremiah 7:5For, if ye do thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, If ye do judgment thoroughly Between a man and his neighbour,
Jeremiah 22:3Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed 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 →