Proverbs 31:5 - New Revised Standard Version

⁵ or else they will drink and forget what has been decreed, and will pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Lest they drink and forget the law and what it decrees, and pervert the justice due any of the afflicted.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.

Common English Bible

⁵ Otherwise, they will drink and forget the law, and violate the rights of the needy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And perhaps they may drink and forget judgments, and alter the case of the sons of the poor.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

Proverbs 31:5 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 20:12

When Ben-hadad heard this message—now he had been drinking with the kings in the booths—he said to his men, “Take your positions!” And they took their positions against the city.

Exodus 23:6

You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.

Proverbs 17:15

One who justifies the wicked and one who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not right to be partial to the guilty, or to subvert the innocent in judgment.

Isaiah 5:22

Ah, you who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant at mixing drink,

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of their rights!

Leviticus 10:9

Drink no wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons, when you enter the tent of meeting, that you may not die; it is a statute forever throughout your generations.

Habakkuk 2:5

Moreover, wealth is treacherous; the arrogant do not endure. They open their throats wide as Sheol; like Death they never have enough. They gather all nations for themselves, and collect all peoples as their own.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.