Proverbs 31:8–9

8 qOpen your mouth for the mute,

for the rights of all who are destitute.3

9 Open your mouth, rjudge righteously,

sdefend the rights of tthe poor and needy.

q	Job 29:12, 15, 16; [Isa. 1:17]
3	Hebrew are sons of passing away
r	Lev. 19:15; Deut. 1:16
s	Jer. 22:16; [Isa. 1:17]
t	ver. 20; Ps. 40:17; 86:1