Proverbs 31:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb In the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Open your mouth for the dumb [those unable to speak for themselves], for the rights of all who are left desolate and defenseless; [I Sam. 19:4; Esth. 4:16; Job 29:15, 16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.

Common English Bible

⁸ Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Open your mouth for the mute and for all the cases of the sons who are passing through.

Proverbs 31:8 Cross References

Jeremiah 26:24

But the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over into the hands of the people to be put to death.

John 7:51

“Our law does not judge people without first giving them a hearing to find out what they are doing, does it?”

Psalm 79:11

Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die.

1 Samuel 20:32

Then Jonathan answered his father Saul, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for fools; in the gate they do not open their mouths.

Job 29:9

the nobles refrained from talking and laid their hands on their mouths;

Psalm 82:1

God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous know the rights of the poor; the wicked have no such understanding.

Proverbs 31:7

let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David! Thus says the Lord: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed, or else my wrath will go forth like fire and burn, with no one to quench it, because of their evil doings.