Proverbs 31:8
6 Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.
7 Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
10 A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
- KJV
- Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
- WEB
- Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
- ASV
- Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.
- DARBY
- Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.
- BLB
- Open your mouth for a mute one, for the cause of all the sons of destitution.
- ÅB
- Åpne din munn for den stumme, for alle deres sak som er nær ved å forgå!
- OTB
- Talsak for dem som ikke kan tale for seg selv, for alle de fattiges rettigheter.
- B1930
- Oplat din munn for den stumme, for alle deres sak som er nær ved å forgå!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 82:3–4
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Read in contextProverbs 24:11–12
Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
Read in contextJeremiah 38:7–10
Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
Read in contextJeremiah 26:24
Nevertheless, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.
Read in contextEsther 4:13–16
he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.
Read in contextJob 29:12–17
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Read in contextJeremiah 26:16–19
Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”
Read in contextPsalms 79:11
May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
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