Proverbs 23:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Enter not into the fields of the fatherless Either to take away their goods, or rather, to possess their lands, as this phrase is used, 2 Samuel 5:6. For their Redeemer is mighty Hebrew, גאלם, their near kinsman, to whom it belongs to avenge their wrongs, and to recover and maintain their rights: see on Leviticus 25:25; Numbers 35:12; Job 19:25. God is pleased to call himself the kinsman of the fatherless, to show how much he concerns himself for the relief of oppressed and helpless persons.

Proverbs 23:10-11

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

11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.