Proverbs 31:8

The Message

“Speak up for the people who have no voice, for the rights of all the misfits. Speak out for justice! Stand up for the poor and destitute!”

Cross References

Jeremiah 26:24

But in Jeremiah’s case, Ahikam son of Shaphan stepped forward and took his side, preventing the mob from lynching him.)

Psalm 79:11

Give groaning prisoners a hearing; pardon those on death row from their doom—you can do it! Give our jeering neighbors what they’ve got coming to them; let their God-taunts boomerang and knock them flat. Then we, your people, the ones you love and care for, will thank you over and over and over. We’ll tell everyone we meet how wonderful you are, how praiseworthy you are!

1 Samuel 20:32

Jonathan stood up to his father. “Why dead? What’s he done?”

Proverbs 24:7

Wise conversation is way over the head of fools; in a serious discussion they haven’t a clue.

Psalm 82:1

God calls the judges into his courtroom, he puts all the judges in the dock.

Proverbs 29:7

The good-hearted understand what it’s like to be poor; the hardhearted haven’t the faintest idea.