Proverbs 31:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Open your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of all who are left desolate.

Cross References

Job 29:9

the princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;

Psalm 79:11

Let the groans of the prisoners come before thee; according to thy great power preserve those doomed to die!

Psalm 82:1

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

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

Proverbs 29:7

A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man 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 house of David! Thus says the Lord: “ ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil doings.’ ”

Jeremiah 26:24

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

John 7:51

“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”

1 Samuel 20:32

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