Proverbs 31:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

Cross References

Job 29:9

The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;

Psalm 79:11

Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;

Psalm 82:1

A Psalm. Of Asaph. God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

Proverbs 29:7

The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.

Proverbs 31:7

Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

Jeremiah 21:12

O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 26:24

But Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, gave Jeremiah his help, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to be put to death.

John 7:51

Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?

1 Samuel 20:32

And Jonathan, answering his father Saul, said to him, Why is he to be put to death? What has he done?