Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
New American Standard Bible
Or
King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Holman Bible
and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
International Standard Version
Don't move ancient boundaries or invade fields belonging to orphans;
Amplified
Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
And do not go into the fields of the fatherless [to take what is theirs],
Bible in Basic English
Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
Darby Translation
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come:
King James 2000
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
Modern King James verseion
Do not remove the old landmarks, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless.
NET Bible
Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
New Heart English Bible
Do not move the ancient boundary stone. Do not encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
The Emphasized Bible
Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;
Webster
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
World English Bible
Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
Youngs Literal Translation
Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
Themes
Fatherless » Admonitions in regard to
Landmarks » Protected from fraudulent removal
Orphans » Admonitions in regard to
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Proverbs 23:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Living With Your Neighbor
9 Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words. 10 Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.
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 22:3
Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
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.
Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 6:27
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
Job 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:2-3
There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Job 24:9
There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
Job 31:21-23
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:
Psalm 94:6
They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 7:5
For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right , and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.