Proverbs 23:10
Good News Translation
Never move an old property line or take over land owned by orphans.

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

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

New American Bible
Do not remove the ancient landmark, nor invade the fields of the fatherless;

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:

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Proverbs 22:28 Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.

Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.

Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Job 24:2 Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.

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Job 6:27 You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.

Job 22:9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.

Job 24:3,9 They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge. . . .

Job 31:21-23 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: . . .

Psalm 94:6 They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.

Jeremiah 7:5 For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,

Jeremiah 22:3 Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place.

Zechariah 7:10 And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

James 1:27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

Context
True Riches
9Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech. 10Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:11For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:22
You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.

Job 24:2
Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.

Proverbs 15:25
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.

Proverbs 22:28
Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.

Jeremiah 22:3
Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place.

Zechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.

Proverbs 23:9
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