Bible verse
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 31.
5 lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.
6 Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.
7 Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
8 Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
10 A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
11 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he lacks nothing of value.
12 She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
13 She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
KJV
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
ASV
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy.
ERV
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister judgment to the poor and needy.
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