Proverbs 22:28 · Young's Literal Translation
Proverbs 22:28 in the Original Hebrew
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Proverbs 22:28 in Other Translations
| KJV | Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. |
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| WEB | Don’t move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up. |
| ASV | Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set. |
| YLT | Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made. |
| WBT | Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. |
| DBY | Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. |
Commentary on Proverbs 22:28
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John Gill · Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. Or, "the ancient border" or "boundary" (n); by which lands, estates, and inheritances, were marked, bounded, and distinguished; set by ancestors in agreement with their neighbours; which to remove was contrary to a law, and a curse is denounced upon those that did it, Deu 19:14; and was always reckoned a very heinous crime in early times; See Gill on Job 24:2. This was so sacred a thing among the Romans, that they had a deity which presided over those bounds, and had its name from them. Some apply this, in a political sense, to laws of long standing, and customs of long prescription; and others interpret it, in a theological sense, of doctrines and practices settled by the fathers of the church; which, if understood of Christ and his apostles only, will be allowed; but if of the ancient fathers of the church that followed them, it should not be received; since they were but fallible men, and guilty of many errors and mistakes, both in doctrine and practice.
(n) "terminum antiquum", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis, Schultens.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Proverbs 22:28
(Compare Pro 23:10). Do not entrench on others (Deu 19:14; Deu 27:17).
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Questions about Proverbs 22:28
What does Proverbs 22:28 say?
Proverbs 22:28 in the Young's Literal Translation reads: “Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.” Read it in the full context of Proverbs 22, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Proverbs 22:28 found in the Bible?
Proverbs 22:28 is in the book of Proverbs, chapter 22, verse 28, in the Old Testament.
What Bible translation is Proverbs 22:28 shown in?
This is the Young's Literal Translation (YLT), a public-domain translation. You can compare how other translations render Proverbs 22:28 in the table on this page.
1.We are here taught not to invade another man's right, though we can find ways of doing it ever so secretly and plausibly, clandestinely and by fraud, without any open force. Let not property in general be entrenched upon, by robbing men of their liberties and privileges, or of any just ways of maintaining them. Let not the property of particular persons be encroached upon. The land-marks, or meer-stones, are standing witnesses to every man's right; let not those be removed quite away, for thence come wars, and fightings, and endless disputes; let them not be removed so as to take from thy neighbour's lot to thy own, for that is downright robbing him and entailing the fraud upon posterity. 2. We may infer hence that a deference is to be paid, in all civil matters, to usages that have prevailed time out of mind and the settled constitutions of government, in which it becomes us to acquiesce, lest an attempt to change it, under pretence of changing it for the better, prove of dangerous consequence.