Proverbs 23:10 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁰ Do not remove an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless, [Deut. 19:14; 27:17; Prov. 22:28.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Don’t remove an ancient boundary marker; don’t invade the fields of orphans,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Do not touch the boundaries of little ones, and do not enter into the field of the fatherless.

Proverbs 23:10 Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

Job 24:9

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)

Job 6:27

You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.

Psalm 94:6

They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

Exodus 22:22

You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow's boundaries.

Proverbs 22:28

Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 7:5

“For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly execute justice one with another,

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,

Zechariah 7:10

do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.”

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 19:14

“In the inheritance which you will hold in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess, you shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set.

Deuteronomy 27:17

“ ‘Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.