Proverbs 23:10
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New International Version (©1984)
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

New Living Translation (©2007)
Don't cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers; don't take the land of defenseless orphans.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Do not remove the boundary which is of old, and do not enter into the field of orphans

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Do not move an ancient boundary marker or enter fields that belong to orphans,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

American King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

American Standard Version
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:

Darby Bible Translation
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

English Revised Version
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Webster's Bible Translation
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

World English Bible
Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

Young's Literal Translation
Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Remove not the old landmark - See Proverbs 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.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Remove not the old landmark,.... See Gill on Proverbs 22:28;

and enter not into the fields of the fatherless; to carry off the increase of them, to reap their wheat, or mow their grass, or turn in cattle to eat it; or to encroach upon them, take in any part of them, or join the whole to their own; for if there is a woe to them that lay field to field, much more to them that enter into and take the fields of the fatherless, and join them to their own, Isaiah 5:8.


Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

The following proverb forms a new whole from component parts of Proverbs 22:28 and Proverbs 22:22.:

10 Remove not ancient landmarks;

     And into the fields of orphans enter thou not.

11 For their Saviour is a mighty one;

     He will conduct their cause against thee.

בּוא ב separates itself here to the meaning of injuste invadere et occupare; French, empiter sur son voisin, advance not into the ground belonging to thy neighbour (Fleischer). If orphans have also no goel among their kindred (Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, ἀγχιστεύς) to redeem by purchase (Leviticus 25:25) their inheritance that has passed over into the possession of another, they have another, and that a mighty Saviour, Redemptor, who will restore to them that which they have lost - viz. God (Jeremiah 50:34) - who will adopt their cause against any one who has unjustly taken from them.


Geneva Study Bible

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:


Wesley's Notes

23:10 Enter not - To possess their lands.


King James Translators' Notes

landmark: or, bound


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10, 11. (Compare Pr 22:22, 23).


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-3 God's restraints of the appetite only say, Do thyself no harm. 4,5. Be not of those that will be rich. The things of this world are not happiness and a portion for a soul; those that hold them ever so fast, cannot hold them always, cannot hold them long. 6-8. Do not make thyself burdensome to any, especially those not sincere. When we are called by God to his feast, and to let our souls delight themselves, Isa 25:6; 55:2, we may safely partake of the Bread of life. 9. It is our duty to take all fit occasions to speak of Divine things; but if what a wise man says will not be heard, let him hold his peace. 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.


Exodus 22:22 "Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan.
Job 24:2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
Proverbs 15:25 The LORD tears down the proud man's house but he keeps the widow's boundaries intact.
Proverbs 22:28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your forefathers.
Jeremiah 22:3 This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Zechariah 7:10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts do not think evil of each other.'

Ancient Border Boundary Encroach Enter Fatherless Fields Landmark Move Moved Olden Remove Stone Times Widow


Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

remove 22:28 De 19:14 27:17 Job 24:2

landmark 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

Proverbs Chapter 23 Verse 10

Alphabetical: an ancient boundary Do encroach fatherless fields go into move not of on or stone the

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