Proverbs 31:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.”
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“Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 31:8 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 19:4Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.
- 1 Samuel 19:6Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.”
- 1 Samuel 20:32“Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”
- 1 Samuel 22:14Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard who is honored in your house?
- Esther 4:13he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.
- Job 29:9The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.
- Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
- Psalms 79:11May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
- Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
- Proverbs 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.
- Proverbs 24:11Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
- Jeremiah 21:12O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
- Jeremiah 26:16Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”
- Jeremiah 26:24Nevertheless, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.
- Jeremiah 38:7Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
- John 7:51“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
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