Proverbs 31:9
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9 in other translations
| BSB | Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy. |
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| WEB | Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.” |
| ASV | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy. |
| YLT | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!' |
| DARBY | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy. |
| BBE | Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need. |
| Webster | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. |
What does Proverbs 31:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 31:3-9
3-9. Succinct but solemn warnings against vices to which kings are peculiarly tempted, as carnal pleasures and oppressive and unrighteous government are used to sustain sensual indulgence. strength--mental and bodily resources for health and comfort. thy ways--or course of life. to that ... kings--literally, "to the destroying of kings," avoid destructive pleasures (compare Pr 5:9; 7:22, 27; Ho 4:11).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 31:1-9
When children are under the mother's eye, she has an opportunity of fashioning their minds aright. Those who are grown up, should often call to mind the good teaching they received when children. The many awful instances of promising characters who have been ruined by vile women, and love of wine, should warn every one to avoid these evils. Wine is to be used for want or medicine. Every creature of God is good, and…
Proverbs 31:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 31:9
- 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. For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
- 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.
- Job 29:15-16
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 22:3
Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
- Proverbs 16:12
It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
- Daniel 4:27
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
- Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
- Jeremiah 5:28
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
- Deuteronomy 16:18-20
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
- Psalms 72:1-2
A Psalm for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son. He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
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Context
- Proverbs 31:8
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
- Proverbs 31:9
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
- Proverbs 31:10
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 31:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Abre tu boca, juzga justicia, y el derecho del pobre y del menesteroso. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ouvre ta bouche, juge avec justice, et fais droit à l’affligé et au pauvre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Tue deinen Mund auf, richte gerecht, und schaffe Recht dem Elenden und dem Dürftigen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et pauperem. |