Proverbs 31:5 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 31:5

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.

YLT

Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

DBT

— lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction.

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Proverbs 3:1
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Habakkuk 2:5
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 23:33
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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The proper use of such drinks is to restore tone to feeble bodies and depressed minds (compare Ps 104:15). Open . . . cause--Plead for those who cannot plead for themselves, as the orphan, stranger, &c. (compare Ps 72:12; Isa 1:17). appointed to destruction--who are otherwise ruined by their oppressors (compare Pr 29:14, 16).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

No, they are worse than the beasts that perish. All Christians are made to our God kings and priests, and must apply this to themselves. It is not for Christians, it is not for Christians, to drink to excess; they debase themselves if they do; it ill becomes the heirs of the kingdom and the spiritual priests, Lev. x.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It is a sad complaint which is made of the priests and prophets ( Isa. xxviii. 7 ), that they have erred through wine, and through strong drink they are out of the way; and the effect is as bad in kings, who when they are drunk, or intoxicated with the love of wine, cannot but stumble in judgment.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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