Proverbs 23:10
What does Proverbs 23:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Proverbs 23:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
KJV
King James Version · 1611Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Context
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.
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