| Proverbs 31:9 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Speak out, judge fairly, and defend the rights of oppressed and needy people."(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. |
| ASV: | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy. |
| BBE: | Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need. |
| DBY: | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy. |
| ERV: | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister judgment to the poor and needy. |
| JPS: | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. |
| WBS: | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. |
| WEB: | Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy." |
| YLT: | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!' |
| Proverbs 31:9 Cross References |
| XREF: | Leviticus 19:15 'You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Deuteronomy 1:16 "Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and his fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him.
Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.
Jeremiah 22:16 "He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy; Then it was well. Is not that what it means to know Me?" Declares 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. |
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