Proverbs 23:10

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Remove	תַּ֭סֵּג Ta.seg	H5253	to retreat · verb, hiphil jussive, 2nd person masculine singular
old	עוֹלָ֑ם o.Lam	H5769	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
landmark	גְּב֣וּל ge.Vul	H1366	properly · noun, common masculine singular construct
enter	תָּבֹֽא ta.Vo'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal jussive, 2nd person masculine singular
fields	וּבִשְׂדֵ֥י u.vis.Dei	H7704	a field (as flat) · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct
fatherless	יְ֝תוֹמִ֗ים ye.to.Mim	H3490	a bereaved person · noun, common masculine plural absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Proverbs 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
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 hear…
Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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…
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 u…
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 t…
Job 24:2-3 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Job 6:27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:10-11

Note, 1. The fatherless are taken under God's special protection; with him they not only find mercy shown to them (Hos 14:3) but justice done for them. He is their Redeemer, their Goel, their near kinsman, that will take their part and stand up for them with jealousy, as taking himself affronted in the injuries done to them. As their Redeemer he will plead their cause against those that do them any injury, and, one way or other, will not only defend their right, and recover it for them, but avenge the wrongs done to them. And he is mighty, almighty; his omnipotence is engaged and employed for their protection, and their proudest and most powerful oppressors will not only find themselves an u…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 23:10

(Compare Pro 22:22-23).

John Gill on Proverbs 23:10

Remove not the old landmark,.... See Gill on Proverbs 22:28; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless; to carry off the increase of them, to reap their wheat, or mow their grass, or turn in cattle to eat it; or to encroach upon them, take in any part of them, or join the whole to their own; for if there is a woe to them that lay field to field, much more to them that enter into and take the fields of the fatherless, and join them to their own, Isaiah 5:8.

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 23:10-11

The following proverb forms a new whole from component parts of Pro 22:28 and Pro 22:22.: 10 Remove not ancient landmarks; And into the fields of orphans enter thou not. 11 For their Saviour is a mighty one; He will conduct their cause against thee. בּוא ב separates itself here to the meaning of injuste invadere et occupare; French, empiter sur son voisin, advance not into the ground belonging to thy neighbour (Fleischer). If orphans have also no goel among their kindred (Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, ἀγχιστεύς) to redeem by purchase (Lev 25:25) their inheritance that has passed over into the possession of another, they have another, and that a mighty Saviour, Redemptor, who will restore…

The Church Fathers

Do not touch the boundaries of the little ones, etc. He calls the Lord the near one of the little ones and orphans because, while in the flesh, he deigned to be a companion in faith more to the poor than the rich. Otherwise, the same Lord is of all, rich to all who call upon him. However, by the name of orphans and little ones, those can be fittingly designated about whom the Lord said: See that you do not despise one of these little ones who believe in me. For I say to you that their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven (Matthew 18). Whoever touches their fields and boundaries, that is, who harms their good conversation by disturbing them, will not evade the judgment of the Lord.
— Bede, Commentary on Proverbs

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Dictionary and topics

Field — (Heb. sadeh), a cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture (Gen. 29:2; 31:4; 34:7), or tillage (Gen. 37:7; 47:24). It is also applied to woodland (Ps. 132:6)…
Landmark — A boundary line indicated by a stone, stake, etc. (Deut. 19:14; 27:17; Prov. 22:28; 23:10; Job 24:2). Landmarks could not be removed without incurring the severe displeasure of God.
Fatherless · Defraud not — Defraud not
Landmarks · Protected from fraudulent removal — Protected from fraudulent removal
Orphan · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Proverbs 23:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:10-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 23:10

John Gill on Proverbs 23:10

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 23:10-11

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Proverbs 23:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:10-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 23:10

John Gill on Proverbs 23:10

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 23:10-11

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 23:10-11

Rashi on Proverbs 23:10