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Proverbs 23

Prov. 23:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Remove
nacag (Hebrew #5253)
to retreat
KJV usage: departing away, remove, take (hold), turn away.
Pronounce: naw-sag'
Origin: a primitive root
a not the old
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
ζlandmark
gbuwl (Hebrew #1366)
from 1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extens. the territory inclosed
KJV usage: border, bound, coast, X great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
Pronounce: gheb-ool'
Origin: or (shortened) gbul {gheb-ool'}
; and enter
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
not into the fields
sadeh (Hebrew #7704)
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat)
KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.
Pronounce: saw-deh'
Origin: or saday {saw-dah'-ee}
of the fatherless
yathowm (Hebrew #3490)
a bereaved person
KJV usage: fatherless (child), orphan.
Pronounce: yaw-thome'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lonely
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Prov. 22:28• 28Remove not the ancient landmark{HR}Which thy fathers have set. (Prov. 22:28)
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or, bound.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 22:28• 28Remove not the ancient landmark{HR}Which thy fathers have set. (Prov. 22:28)
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Deut. 19:14• 14{i}Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have fixed in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess.{/i} (Deut. 19:14)
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Deut. 27:17• 17{i}Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i} (Deut. 27:17)
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Job 24:2• 2They remove landmarks; they rob flocks, and feed; (Job 24:2)
landmark.
or, bound.
fatherless.
Job 6:27• 27Ye would even let fall on the orphan,{HR}And would traffic for your friend. (Job 6:27)
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Job 22:9• 9Widows didst thou send empty away,{HR}And the arms of the fatherless were broken. (Job 22:9)
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Job 24:3,9• 3They drive the ass of the orphan,{HR}They distrain the ox of the widow;
 9They pluck the orphan from the breast,{HR}And on the poor lay distraint. (Job 24:3,9)
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Job 31:21‑23• 21If I shook my hand over the orphan,{HR}When I saw my help in the gate;
 22Let my shoulder fall from the blade,{HR}And mine arm be broken from the bone.
 23For the destruction of God [El] was a terror to me,{HR}And before his majesty I was powerless. (Job 31:21‑23)
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Psa. 94:6• 6They slay the widow and the stranger,{HR}And murder the fatherless. (Psa. 94:6)
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Jer. 7:5• 5For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; (Jer. 7:5)
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Jer. 22:3• 3Thus saith Jehovah: 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. (Jer. 22:3)
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Zech. 7:10• 10{i}and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.{/i} (Zech. 7:10)
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Mal. 3:5• 5And 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 Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)
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James 1:27• 27A religious service pure and undefiled before him that is God and Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep himself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)
• {v.10-11} He who, because of their apparent helplessness, invades the field of the widow or the orphan, in order to enlarge his own possessions, will learn to his sorrow that they have a Goel, or Kinsman-Redeemer, in Jehovah Himself. (“Proverbs Twenty-Three” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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Remove not the ancient landmark,{HR}And enter not into the fields of the fatherless;