Proverbs 31:5 Parallel Translations

Otherwise, they drink and forget what they have decreed and change the standard of justice for all oppressed people.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

ASV:

Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.

BBE:

For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

DBY:

lest they drink And forget the law, And pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction.

ERV:

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any that is afflicted.

JPS:

Lest they drink, and forget that which is decreed, and pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.

WBS:

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

WEB:

lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

YLT:

Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

Proverbs 31:5 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 23:6 "You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.

Deuteronomy 16:19 "You shall not distort justice; you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 17:15 He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

31:1-9 When children are under the mother's eye, she has an opportunity of fashioning their minds aright. Those who are grown up, should often call to mind the good teaching they received when children. The many awful instances of promising characters who have been ruined by vile women, and love of wine, should warn every one to avoid these evils. Wine is to be used for want or medicine. Every creature of God is good, and wine, though abused, has its use. By the same rule, due praise and consolation should be used as cordials to the dejected and tempted, not administered to the confident and self-sufficient. All in authority should be more carefully temperate even than other men; and should be protectors of those who are unable or afraid to plead their own cause. Our blessed Lord did not decline the bitterest dregs of the cup of sorrow put into his hands; but he puts the cup of consolation into the hands of his people, and causes those to rejoice who are in the deepest distress.

CONC:

Afflicted Affliction Anyone Cause Change Decree Decreed Decrees Deprive Drink Drinking Due Fear Forget Judging Judgment Justice Law Lest Oppressed Pervert Respect Rights Sons Trouble Wrongly

Afflicted Affliction Cause Change Children Decree Decreed Decrees Deprive Drink Drinking Due Fear Forget Judging Judgment Justice Oppressed Pervert Respect Rights Wrongly

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