Proverbs 23:10

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 22:28 : 28 Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
  • Jer 22:3 : 3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
  • Zech 7:10 : 10 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'
  • Deut 19:14 : 14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
  • Deut 27:17 : 17 'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Job 6:27 : 27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
  • Job 22:9 : 9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
  • Job 24:2-3 : 2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them. 3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
  • Job 24:9 : 9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
  • Job 31:21-23 : 21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, 22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. 23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
  • Ps 94:6 : 6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • Jer 7:5 : 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 22:27-28
    2 verses
    85%

    27 If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

    28 Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

  • Deut 19:14
    81%

    14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

  • Isa 10:2
    75%

    2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Job 22:9
    75%

    9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Job 24:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

    3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

  • Deut 24:17
    75%

    17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Deut 27:17
    75%

    17 'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Prov 23:11
    75%

    11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

  • Exod 22:22
    74%

    22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

  • Prov 23:9
    73%

    9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

  • Deut 24:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

    20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

    21 When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

  • Jer 7:6
    72%

    6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

  • Job 6:27
    72%

    27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

  • Prov 23:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

    23 Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

  • Exod 23:6
    72%

    6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Jer 49:11
    72%

    11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

  • Job 31:21
    72%

    21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

  • Prov 1:15
    71%

    15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • Prov 22:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

    23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

  • Ezek 22:7
    71%

    7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

  • Zech 7:10
    71%

    10 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

  • Prov 5:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

    8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

    9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

    10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

  • Prov 4:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.

    15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

  • Job 24:9
    71%

    9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

  • Ps 10:14
    70%

    14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

  • Obad 1:13
    70%

    13 Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

  • Job 31:17
    70%

    17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

  • Job 22:15
    70%

    15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

  • Exod 23:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2 "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

    3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

  • Prov 1:8
    70%

    8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • Jer 22:3
    69%

    3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Deut 27:19
    69%

    19 'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Ps 10:18
    69%

    18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.

  • Jer 5:28
    69%

    28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

  • Ps 109:10
    69%

    10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

  • Prov 1:10
    69%

    10 My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

  • Lev 19:10
    69%

    10 You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Prov 27:10
    69%

    10 Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

  • Ps 82:3
    69%

    3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.