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 [hardened, arrogant] fool;
He does not open his mouth in the gate [where the city’s rulers sit in judgment].

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

Jonathan answered Saul his father, “Why must he be put to death? What has he done?”

Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is as faithful and trustworthy as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and who is captain over your guard [and your confidant], 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 and maintain the rights of the afflicted and destitute.

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the [false] prophets, “This man is not deserving of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

Now Ebed-melech the Ethiopian (Cushite), one of the eunuchs who was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern, and while the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin,

“Does our Law convict someone without first giving him a hearing and finding out what he is [accused of] doing?”

General references

“If there is a controversy between men, and they go to court, and the judges decide [the issue] between them, and they judge in favor of the innocent and condemn the guilty,

Then He began to teach them, saying,