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Proverbs 23:10

Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Remove not the old landmark,.... See Gill on Pro 22:28;

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Proverbs 23:10-11

Note, 1. The fatherless are taken under God's special protection; with him they not only find mercy shown to them (Hos 14:3) but justice done for them. He is their Redeemer, their Goel, their near…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

See Pro 22:28.

enter not into to do him wrong as the parallelism implies.