Proverbs 23:10 - Tree of Life Version Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or encroach on fields of the fatherless, 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: |
The orphan is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
If you mistreat them in any way, and they cry out to Me, I will surely hear their cry.
Adonai tears down a proud man’s house, but He maintains the widow’s boundary.
Thus says Adonai: ‘Execute justice and righteousness. Rescue the one who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the fatherless or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
“No, if you truly mend your ways and your deeds—if you are doing justice between a man and his neighbor,
not oppressing the sojourner, orphan and widow nor shedding innocent blood in this place, nor going after other gods to your own ruin—
Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the outsider or the poor. Furthermore, do not let any of you devise evil against one another in your heart.’
“Then I will draw near to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers those who extort a worker’s wage, or oppress the widow or an orphan, those who mislead a stranger. They do not fear Me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker that the first generations marked out, in the inheritance you will receive in the land Adonai your God is giving you to possess.
‘Cursed is the one who removes his neighbor’s boundary marker.’ Then all the people are to say, ‘Amen.’
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.