Proverbs 23:10

In 11 translations

BSB

Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

KJV

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

WEB

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

ASV

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

LSV

Do not remove a border of ancient times, || And do not enter into fields of the fatherless,

YLT

Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

DBY

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

DRC

Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:

GNV

Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.

JPS

Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless;

LXXE

Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:

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Original-language editions

WLC

אַל־תַּ֭סֵּג גְּב֣וּל עוֹלָ֑ם וּבִשְׂדֵ֥י יְ֝תוֹמִ֗ים אַל־תָּבֹֽא׃

LXX-Br

Μὴ μεταθῇς ὅρια αἰώνια, εἰς δὲ κτῆμα ὀρφανῶν μὴ εἰσέλθῃς·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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.’
• Proverbs 22:28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
• 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…
• Deuteronomy 27:17‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
• 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.
• 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.
• Job 24:2–3Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
• Job 6:27You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
• Psalms 94:6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
• 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…
• Job 31:21–23if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate, then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket. For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I…
• Jeremiah 7:5For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
• Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
• Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

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