Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Open your mouth for the mute,
For the rights of all the unfortunate.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Speak up for those who have no voice,
for the justice of all who are dispossessed.

International Standard Version

Speak for those who cannot speak; seek justice for all those on the verge of destruction.

A Conservative Version

Open thy mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate.

American Standard Version

Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.

Amplified


Open your mouth for the mute,
For the rights of all who are unfortunate and defenseless;

Bible in Basic English

Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

Darby Translation

Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.

Julia Smith Translation

Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the judgment of all the sons of the surviving.

King James 2000

Open your mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all who are left desolate.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the {needy}.

Modern King James verseion

Open your mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all the sons of those passing away.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Be thou an advocate and stand in judgment thyself, to speak for all such as be dumb and sucourless.

NET Bible

Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.

New Heart English Bible

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

The Emphasized Bible

Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all the children of the departed.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

Youngs Literal Translation

Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּתח 
Pathach 
Usage: 143

for the dumb
אלּם 
'illem 
Usage: 6

in the cause
דּוּן דּין 
Diyn 
Usage: 20

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

The Oracle Of King Lemuel

7 let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. 8 Open your mouth for the mute,
For the rights of all the unfortunate.
9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Cross References

Psalm 82:3-4

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

1 Samuel 19:4-7

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.

1 Samuel 20:32

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

1 Samuel 22:14-15

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?

Esther 4:13-16

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.

Job 29:9

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

Job 29:12-17

because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Psalm 79:11

Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

Proverbs 24:11-12

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

Jeremiah 26:16-19

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."

Jeremiah 26:24

But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.

Jeremiah 38:7-10

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--

John 7:51

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

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