Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field 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;
American Standard Version
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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;
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 Tell nothing into the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. 10 Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless. 11 For he that delivereth them is mighty, even he shall defend their cause against thee.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 22:28
Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.
Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's mark which they of old time have set in thine inheritance that thou inheritest in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to enjoy it.
Jeremiah 22:3
Thus the LORD commandeth: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent: do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place.
Zechariah 7:10
Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."
Deuteronomy 27:17
"'Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's mark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Job 6:27
Ye fall upon the fatherless, and go about to overthrow your own friend.
Job 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.
Job 24:2-3
For some men there be, that remove other men's landmarks; that rob them of their cattle, and keep the same for their own;
Job 24:9
They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,
Job 31:21-23
Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?
Psalm 94:6
They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.
Jeremiah 7:5
"For if ye will amend your ways and counsels, if ye will judge right betwixt a man and his neighbour;
Malachi 3:5
I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
James 1:27
Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.