Proverbs 31:8
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31:8Open your mouth18 on behalf of those unable to speak,19
for the legal rights of all the dying.20
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- 18 The instruction to “open your mouth” is a metonymy of cause; it means “speak up for” (so , , ) or in this context “serve as an advocate in judgment” (cf. “you must defend”).
- 19 The instruction compares people who cannot defend themselves in court with those who are physically unable to speak (this is a figure of speech known as hypocatastasis, an implied comparison). The former can physically speak; but because they are the poor, the uneducated, the oppressed, they are unable to conduct a legal defense. They may as well be speechless.
- 20 Or “of all the defenseless.” The noun חֲלוֹף (khalof) means “passing away; vanishing” (properly an infinitive); in this construction “the sons of the passing away” means people who by nature are transitory, people who are dying—mortals. But in this context it would indicate people who are “defenseless” as opposed to those who are healthy and powerful.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Open your mouth for the mute,
for the rights of all who are destitute.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,
for the rights of all who are destitute.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Speak up for those who have no voice,
for the justice of all who are dispossessed.
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NLTNew Living Translation
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves;
ensure justice for those being crushed.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Open your mouth for the mute,
for the rights of all the needy.
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KJV 1900King James Version
Open thy mouth for the dumb
In the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
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