Proverbs 22:28 (BSB)

Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:28

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:28: 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.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 22:28: (Compare Pro 23:10). Do not entrench on others (Deu 19:14; Deu 27:17).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 22:28: Pro 22:28 A fourth proverb - a distich - beginning with the warning אל: 28 Remove not the perpetual landmark Which thy ancestors have set up. 28a = Pro 23:10. Regarding the inviolability of boundaries established by the law, vid., at Pro 15:25.