Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
BSB
ASV
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy.
KJV
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
The walk8
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Through
Isaiah 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
leads to
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.…
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
Through
Leviticus 19:15You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
leads to
You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I…
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.