Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Proverbs 23:10 in other translations
| BSB | Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, |
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| WEB | Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless, |
| ASV | Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless: |
| YLT | Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not, |
| DARBY | Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: |
| BBE | Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father; |
| Webster | Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: |
What does Proverbs 23:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 23:10-11
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 23:10-11
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Proverbs 23:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 23:10
- Zechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
- Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
- Jeremiah 22:3
Thus 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.
- Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
- Job 24:2-3
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
- Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
- Job 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- Job 6:27
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
- Job 31:21-23
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
- Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
- Jeremiah 7:5
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
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Context
- Proverbs 23:9
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
- Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- Proverbs 23:11
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Proverbs 23:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No traspases el término antiguo, ni entres en la heredad de los huérfanos: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ne recule pas la borne ancienne, et n’entre pas dans les champs des orphelins; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Verrücke nicht die alte Grenze, und dringe nicht ein in die Felder der Waisen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ne attingas parvulorum terminos, et agrum pupillorum ne introëas: |