Proverbs 31:8

New English Translation

Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.

Cross References

Job 29:9

the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;

Psalm 79:11

Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners! Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die!

Psalm 82:1

God stands in the assembly of El; in the midst of the gods he renders judgment.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is unattainable for a fool; in court he does not open his mouth.

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous person cares for the legal rights of the poor; the wicked does not understand such knowledge.

Proverbs 31:7

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

Jeremiah 21:12

O royal family descended from David. The Lord says: ‘See to it that people each day are judged fairly. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Otherwise, my wrath will blaze out against you. It will burn like a fire that cannot be put out because of the evil that you have done.

Jeremiah 26:24

However, Ahikam son of Shaphan used his influence to keep Jeremiah from being handed over and executed by the people.

John 7:51

“Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?”

1 Samuel 20:32

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