Proverbs 23:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,”
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“Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:”
King James Version · Public Domain“Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 23:10 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 19:14You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 27:17‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Job 6:27You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
- Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
- Job 24:2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
- Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
- Psalms 94:6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
- Proverbs 22:28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
- Jeremiah 7:5For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
- Jeremiah 7:6if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
- Jeremiah 22:3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
- Zechariah 7:10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
- Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- James 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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