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; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, "Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you.

Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

Then Ahimelech answered the king, "And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?

Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.

the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."

When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern--the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate--

"Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"

General references

"If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: