KJV King James Version
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Proverbs 31:8
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
WEB World English Bible
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
ASV American Standard Version
Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 31
5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies.
11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
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Psalm 82:3-4Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.Proverbs 24:11-12If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn unto death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;Esther 4:13-16Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.Jeremiah 26:24Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.Jeremiah 38:7-10Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;Job 29:12-17Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.Jeremiah 26:16-19Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man [is] not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.Psalm 79:11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;John 7:51Doth our law judge [any] man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?1 Samuel 20:32And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?1 Samuel 19:4-7And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works [have been] to theeward very good:1 Samuel 22:14-15Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who [is so] faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?Proverbs 24:7Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.Job 29:9The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth.
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