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 high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.

And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against thee; for also what he did was very advantageous to thee;

And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be put to death? what has he done?

And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and has access to thy secret council, and is honourable in thy house?

And Mordecai bade to answer Esther: Imagine not in thy heart that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;

Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;

And the princes and all the people said unto the priests and to the prophets, This man is not worthy to die; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.

And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon now the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin,

Does our law judge a man before it have first heard from himself, and know what he does?

General references

If there be a controversy between men, and they resort to judgment, and they judge their case; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

and, having opened his mouth, he taught them, saying,