Proverbs 23:10

New Living Translation

Don't cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers; don't take the land of defenseless orphans.

Parallel Translations

Update Bible Version
Don't remove the ancient landmark; And don't enter into the fields of the fatherless:

New Century Version
Don't move an old stone that marks a border, and don't take fields that belong to orphans.

New English Translation
Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,

Webster's Bible Translation
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:

Amplified Bible
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],

English Standard Version
Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Touche thou not the termes of litle children; and entre thou not in to the feeld of fadirles and modirles children.

English Revised Version
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Berean Standard Bible
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Contemporary English Version

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Don't move a boundary marker or take the land that belongs to orphans.

American Standard Version
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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;

Complete Jewish Bible
Don't move the ancient boundary stone or encroach on the land of the fatherless;

Darby Translation
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Easy-to-Read Version
Never move an old property line, and don't take land that belongs to orphans.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless;

King James Version (1611)
Remoue not the old landmarke; and enter not into the fields of the fatherlesse.

New Life Bible
Do not take away the old land-mark, or go into the fields of those without a father.

New Revised Standard
Do not remove an ancient landmark or encroach on the fields of orphans,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.

George Lamsa Translation
Do not remove the old landmark; nor enter into the field of the fatherless;

Good News Translation

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Never move an old property line or take over land owned by orphans.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:

Revised Standard Version
Do not remove an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Remoue not the olde lande marke, and come not within the fielde of the fatherlesse:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:

Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t move an ancient boundary marker,and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Hebrew Names Version
Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Lexham English Bible
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;

Literal Translation
Do not move the old landmark, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless,

Young's Literal Translation
Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Remoue not ye olde lande marke, and come not within ye felde of the fatherlesse:

THE MESSAGE
10 Don't stealthily move back the boundary lines or cheat orphans out of their property, For they have a powerful Advocate who will go to bat for them.

New American Standard Bible
Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

New King James Version
Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not move the ancient boundaryAnd do not come into the fields of the orphans,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Don't cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers; don't take the land of defenseless orphans. ¹¹ For their Redeemer is strong; he himself will bring their charges against you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Remove: Proverbs 22:28, Deuteronomy 19:14, Deuteronomy 27:17, Job 24:2

landmark: or, bound

fatherless: Job 6:27, Job 22:9, Job 24:3, Job 24:9, Job 31:21-23, Psalms 94:6, Jeremiah 7:5, Jeremiah 22:3, Zechariah 7:10, Malachi 3:5, James 1:27

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:23 - I will surely Deuteronomy 24:15 - lest he Psalms 103:6 - executeth Psalms 136:24 - General Psalms 140:12 - the Lord Psalms 146:7 - executeth Proverbs 22:22 - Rob Isaiah 3:13 - standeth up Jeremiah 49:11 - thy fatherless Lamentations 3:35 - turn Hosea 14:3 - for Amos 4:1 - which oppress

Cross-References

Genesis 23:1
When Sarah was 127 years old,

Genesis 23:3
Then, leaving her body, he said to the Hittite elders,

Genesis 23:4
"Here I am, a stranger and a foreigner among you. Please sell me a piece of land so I can give my wife a proper burial."

Genesis 23:18
It was transferred to Abraham as his permanent possession in the presence of the Hittite elders at the city gate.

Genesis 24:10
Then he loaded ten of Abraham's camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master, and he traveled to distant Aram-naharaim. There he went to the town where Abraham's brother Nahor had settled.

Genesis 34:20
and he went with his father, Hamor, to present this proposal to the leaders at the town gate.

Genesis 34:24
So all the men in the town council agreed with Hamor and Shechem, and every male in the town was circumcised.

Job 29:7
"Those were the days when I went to the city gate and took my place among the honored leaders.

Isaiah 28:6
He will give a longing for justice to their judges. He will give great courage to their warriors who stand at the gates.

Matthew 9:1
Jesus climbed into a boat and went back across the lake to his own town.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remove not the old landmark,.... :-;

and enter not into the fields of the fatherless; to carry off the increase of them, to reap their wheat, or mow their grass, or turn in cattle to eat it; or to encroach upon them, take in any part of them, or join the whole to their own; for if there is a woe to them that lay field to field, much more to them that enter into and take the fields of the fatherless, and join them to their own, Isaiah 5:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 23:10. Remove not the old landmark — See the preceding chapter, Proverbs 22:28.

Enter not into the fields of the fatherless — Take nothing that belongs to an orphan. The heaviest curse of God will fall upon them that do so.