Proverbs 31:8

Modern English Version

Speak out for the mute, for the cause of all who are sons of destitution.

Cross References

Job 29:9

The princes refrained from talking, and put their hand on their mouth.

Psalm 79:11

Let the groaning of the prisoners come before You; according to the greatness of Your power preserve those who are appointed to die.

Psalm 82:1

God has taken His place in the divine council; He renders judgment among the gods.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; he opens not his mouth in the gate.

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked do not understand such knowledge.

Proverbs 31:7

let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David; thus says the Lord: Execute justice each morning, and deliver him who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go out like fire and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

Jeremiah 26:24

Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, with the result that he was not given into the hands of the people to put him to death.

John 7:51

“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

1 Samuel 20:32

Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, “Why should he be killed? What has he done?”