Proverbs 31:9 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 31:9

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

KJV

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ASV

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy.

WEB

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.

YLT

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

DBT

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy.

About this book

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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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26 verses on the floor

Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Amos 5:11–12
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Deuteronomy 1:16
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Job 29:15–16
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

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

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(2.) He must, in all matters that come before him, judge righteously, and, without fear of the face of man, boldly pass sentence according to equity: Open thy mouth, which denotes the liberty of speech that princes and judges ought to use in passing sentence. Some observe that only wise men open their mouths, for fools have their mouths always open, are full of words.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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

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PRO 31:9ISA 1:17 MIC 6:8
PRO 31:9ISA 1:17 JER 22:3
PRO 31:9ISA 1:17 PSA 82:3-4
PRO 31:9ISA 1:17 ISA 1:23
PRO 31:9ISA 1:17 ZEC 7:9-10
PRO 31:9LEV 19:15 EXO 23:2-3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 31:9LEV 19:15 DEU 1:17
PRO 31:9LEV 19:15 PRO 24:23

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