Proverbs 31:8 - King James 2000

⁸ Open your mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all who are left desolate.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb In the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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)

⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.

Common English Bible

⁸ Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Open your mouth for the mute and for all the cases of the sons who are passing through.

Proverbs 31:8 Tagairtí Cros

Job 29:9

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

Psalm 79:11

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you; according to the greatness of your power preserve you those that are appointed to die;

Psalm 82:1

[A Psalm of Asaph.] God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges 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 considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not 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 in the morning, and deliver him that is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 26:24

Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

John 7:51

Does our law judge any man, before it hears him, and knows what he does?

1 Samuel 20:32

And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Why shall he be slain? what has he done?