Pro 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: {landmark: or, bound}
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Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. {landmark: or, bound}
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, {and} to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Cursed {be} he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in {his} wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger {from his right}, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. {oppress: or, defraud}
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig {a pit} for your friend. {ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause to fall upon}
{Some} remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed {thereof}. {feed...: or, feed them}
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, {and} the right of the poor.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. {landmark: or, bound}
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in {his} wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger {from his right}, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. {oppress: or, defraud}
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
{Some} remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed {thereof}. {feed...: or, feed them}
Rob not the poor, because he {is} poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
At his day thou shalt give {him} his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he {is} poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee. {setteth...: Heb. lifteth his soul unto it}
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve {them} alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
Cursed {be} he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig {a pit} for your friend. {ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause to fall upon}
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, {Ye are} our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that {are} in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy {endureth} for ever.
The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.