Devine Scripture

Proverbs 23:10

Proverbs chapter 23 · verse 10 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.9Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

v.10This passage

v.11For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 24:9

    There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

  • Deuteronomy 27:17

    Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Deuteronomy 19:14

    Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.

  • Jeremiah 7:5

    For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

  • Zechariah 7:10

    and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.

  • Job 24:2

    There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.