Proverbs 23 · Verse 10

Proverbs 23:10

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Proverbs 23:10, King James Version

Proverbs 23:10 in other translations

BSBDo not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
WEBDon’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
ASVRemove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
YLTRemove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
DARBYRemove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
BBEDo not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
WebsterRemove 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
10-11. (Compare Pr 22:22, 23).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Remove not the old landmark - See Pro 22:28 (note). Enter not into the fields of the fatherless - Take nothing that belongs to an orphan. The heaviest curse of God will fall upon them that do so.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 23:10-11
The fatherless are taken under God's special protection. He is their Redeemer, who will take their part; and he is mighty, almighty.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Proverbs 23:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַל\־'al-may notH408
תַּ֭סֵּגTa.segyou displaceH5253
גְּב֣וּלge.Vula boundary ofH1366
עוֹלָ֑םo.LamantiquityH5769
וּבִשְׂדֵ֥יu.vis.Deiand in [the] fields ofH7704
יְ֝תוֹמִ֗יםye.to.Mimfatherless onesH3490
אַל\־'al-may notH408
תָּבֹֽא\׃ta.Vo'you goH935

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Remove.
22:28; De 19:14; 27:17; Job 24:2
landmark. or, bound. fatherless.
Job 6:27; 22:9; 24:3,9; 31:21-23; Ps 94:6; Jer 7:5; 22:3; Zec 7:10
Mal 3:5; Jas 1:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

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.

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Proverbs 23:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
No traspases el término antiguo, ni entres en la heredad de los huérfanos:
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: