Proverbs 31:8 - Tree of Life Version

⁸ Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the justice of all who are destitute.

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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

princes refrained from talking and put their hand over their mouths;

Psalm 79:11

Let the prisoner’s groan come to You. By Your great arm preserve those who are doomed to die.

Psalm 82:1

A psalm of Asaph. God takes His stand in the assembly of God. He judges among the ‘gods’:

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is unattainable for a fool— he does not open his mouth at the gate.

Proverbs 29:7

A righteous person considers justice for the poor. The wicked one has no such concern.

Proverbs 31:7

let him drink, forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Jeremiah 21:12

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.”

Jeremiah 26:24

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.

John 7:51

“Our Torah doesn’t judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

1 Samuel 20:32

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