Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, || For the right of all sons of change.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
In Context
7He drinks, and forgets his poverty, || And he does not remember his misery again.
9Open your mouth, judge righteously, || Both the cause of the poor and needy!”
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:6And Saul listens to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swears, “YHWH lives—he does not die.”
1 Samuel 22:14And Ahimelech answers the king and says, “And who among all your servants [is] as David—faithful, and son-in-law of the king, and has turned aside to your council, and is honored in your house?
Job 29:9Princes have kept in words, || And they place a hand on their mouth.
Psalms 79:11Let the groaning of the prisoner come in before You, || According to the greatness of Your arm, || Leave the sons of death.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom [is] high for a fool, he does not open his mouth in the gate.
Jeremiah 21:12O house of David, thus said YHWH: “Decide judgment in the morning, || And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, || Lest My fury go forth as fire, || And has burned, and none is quenching, || Because of the evil of your doings.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 31:2-10
Maternal Counsels to King Lemuel. 1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. 2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? 3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: 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… Read the whole commentary →