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Proverbs 31:8
Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the children that pass.
Proverbs 31:8 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Proverbs 31:8 in other translations
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
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In context
5 And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.
6 Give strong drink to them that are sad; and wine to them that are grieved in mind:
7 Let them drink, and forget their want, and remember their sorrow no more.
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the children that pass.
9 Open thy mouth, decree that which is just, and do justice to the needy and poor.
10 Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.
11 The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils.
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