Proverbs 31:8

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Summary

Proverbs 31:8

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

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General references

Deuteronomy 25:1

Matthew 5:2

Bible References

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Wisdom is too exalted for a fool,
He does not open his mouth in the gate.

Then Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Do not let the king sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his deeds have been very beneficial to you.

But Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

Then Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, even the king’s son-in-law, who is captain over your guard, and is honored in your house?

Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews.

“The princes stopped talking
And put their hands on their mouths;

Vindicate the weak and fatherless;

Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, “No death sentence for this man! For he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin;

“Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

General references

“If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying,