Proverbs 22:28 · KJV
“Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. {landmark: or, bound}”
— Proverbs 22:28
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean {men}. {mean...: Heb. obscure men}
Proverbs 22 — Context
Be not thou {one} of them that strike hands, {or} of them that are sureties for debts.
27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
28Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. {landmark: or, bound}
29Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean {men}. {mean...: Heb. obscure men}
Cross References
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: {landmark: or, bound}
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.
Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed {be} he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 24:2
{Some} remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed {thereof}. {feed...: or, feed them}