Proverbs 31:8 - Tree of Life Version Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the justice of all who are destitute. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Open thy mouth for the dumb In the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Open your mouth for the dumb [those unable to speak for themselves], for the rights of all who are left desolate and defenseless; [I Sam. 19:4; Esth. 4:16; Job 29:15, 16.] American Standard Version (1901) Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate. Common English Bible Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable. Catholic Public Domain Version Open your mouth for the mute and for all the cases of the sons who are passing through. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the children that pass. |
Let the prisoner’s groan come to You. By Your great arm preserve those who are doomed to die.
A psalm of Asaph. God takes His stand in the assembly of God. He judges among the ‘gods’:
Wisdom is unattainable for a fool— he does not open his mouth at the gate.
A righteous person considers justice for the poor. The wicked one has no such concern.
O house of David, thus says Adonai: “Render justice by morning, and rescue the one who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Otherwise My fury will go forth like fire and burn so none can extinguish it, because of their evil deeds.”
Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they did not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
“Our Torah doesn’t judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”
But Jonathan answered his father Saul, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”