KJV King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
WEB World English Bible
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
ASV American Standard Version
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
Surrounding context — Proverbs 23
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.
8 The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11 For their redeemer [is] mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
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Zechariah 7:10And 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 22:28Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.James 1:27Pure 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.Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.Jeremiah 22:3Thus 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.Job 24:2-3[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].Deuteronomy 19:14Thou 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.Jeremiah 7:5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;Psalm 94:6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.Job 6:27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.Malachi 3:5And 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.Job 31:21-23If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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