But maybe you sent widows {\cf2\super [35]} away\par without giving them anything.\par Job, maybe you cheated orphans. {\cf2\super [36]} \par
Proverbs 23:10 - Easy To Read Version Never move an old property line. And never take land that belongs to orphans. {\cf2\super [32]} Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Remove not the old landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless: Common English Bible Don’t remove an ancient boundary marker; don’t invade the fields of orphans, Catholic Public Domain Version Do not touch the boundaries of little ones, and do not enter into the field of the fatherless. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: |
But maybe you sent widows {\cf2\super [35]} away\par without giving them anything.\par Job, maybe you cheated orphans. {\cf2\super [36]} \par
Evil people take a nursing baby from its mother.\par They take a poor person’s child\par as security {\cf2\super [39]} for a loan.\par
You would even gamble to win things\par that belong to children without fathers.\par You would sell out your own friend.\par
Those bad people kill widows\par and foreigners living in our country.\par They murder children that have no parents.\par
“You must never do anything bad to women whose husbands are dead or to children without parents.
The Lord will destroy everything a proud person has. But the Lord protects the things that a widow has.
Never move an old property line that was marked long ago by your ancestors. {\cf2\super [31]}
The Lord says: Do the things that are fair and right. Protect the person that has been robbed from the person that robbed him. Don’t hurt or do anything wrong to orphans {\cf2\super [171]} or widows. {\cf2\super [172]} Don’t kill innocent people.
If you change your lives and do good things, I will let you live in this place. You must be fair to each other.
You must be fair to strangers. You must do the right things for widows and orphans. {\cf2\super [54]} Don’t kill innocent people! Don’t follow other gods! Why? Because they will ruin your lives.
Don’t hurt widows and orphans, {\cf2\super [19]} \par strangers, or poor people.\par Don’t even think of doing bad things\par to each other!”\par
Then I will come to you—and I will do the right thing. I will be like a person that is ready to tell the judge about the bad things people did. Some people do evil magic. Some people do the sin of adultery. {\cf2\super [19]} Some people make false promises. Some people cheat their workers—they don’t pay them the money they promised. People don’t help widows and orphans. {\cf2\super [20]} People don’t help strangers. People don’t respect me!” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.
“You must not move the stones that mark your neighbor’s property. People put those stones there in the past to mark each person’s property. Those stones mark the land that the Lord your God gave you.
“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that moves his neighbor’s landmark [176] !’
The kind of religion (worship) that God accepts is this: caring for orphans {\cf2\super [2]} or widows {\cf2\super [3]} who need help, and keeping yourself free from the world’s \{evil\} influence. This is the kind of religion (worship) that God accepts as pure and good.