Proverbs 23:10 · KJV
“Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: {landmark: or, bound}”
— Proverbs 23:10
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
For their redeemer {is} mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Proverbs 23 — Context
The morsel {which} thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: {landmark: or, bound}
11For their redeemer {is} mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
12Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Cross References
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. {landmark: or, bound}
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.
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.
Job 24:2-3
{Some} remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed {thereof}. {feed...: or, feed them}
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 31:21-23
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: