do if under the power of wine. He is to open his mouth for those who cannot speak for themselves and deliver any who would be in danger of destruction which has not been deserved. See chap. 24:11, 12. From verse 10 to the end of the chapter, the subject is the virtuous woman. This section is an acrostic poem, each verse beginning, in the original, with one of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet as indicated in the text here used, though not seen in our authorized Bibles. It was a favorite form of
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