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Proverbs 31

Prov. 31:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Open
pathach (Hebrew #6605)
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
KJV usage: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-)grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.
Pronounce: paw-thakh'
Origin: a primitive root
thy mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
for the dumb
'illem (Hebrew #483)
speechless
KJV usage: dumb (man).
Pronounce: il-lame'
Origin: from 481
in the cause
duwn (Hebrew #1779)
judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by impl. also strife
KJV usage: cause, judgement, plea, strife.
Pronounce: doon
Origin: from 1777
of all κsuch as are appointed
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
to destruction
chalowph (Hebrew #2475)
properly, surviving; by implication (collectively) orphans
KJV usage: X destruction.
Pronounce: khal-ofe'
Origin: from 2498
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κ
the sons of.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 24:7,11‑12• 7Wisdom [is] too high for a fool:{HR}He will not open his mouth in a gate.
 11Deliver those taken forth to death,{HR}And withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.
 12If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not,{HR}Will not he that weigheth the hearts consider it?{HR}And he that preserveth thy soul, he knoweth [it];{HR}And he rendereth to man according to his work. (Prov. 24:7,11‑12)
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1 Sam. 19:4‑7• 4And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
 5for he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
 6And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As Jehovah liveth, he shall not be slain.
 7Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as in times past. (1 Sam. 19:4‑7)
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1 Sam. 20:32• 32And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done? (1 Sam. 20:32)
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1 Sam. 22:14‑15• 14And 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?
 15Was it today that I began to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king charge anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more. (1 Sam. 22:14‑15)
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Esther 4:13‑16• 13Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
 14For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, there shall relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall perish: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for [such] a time as this.
 15And Esther bade to answer Mordecai,
 16Go, gather together all the Jews that are found in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which [is] not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. (Esther 4:13‑16)
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Job 29:9,17• 9Princes refrained from words{HR}And laid the hand on their mouth,
 17And I broke the jaw of the wicked,{HR}And flung the prey out of his teeth. (Job 29:9,17)
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Psa. 82:3‑4• 3Judge the poor (man) and fatherless;{HR}Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
 4Rescue the poor and the needy,{HR}Deliver them from the hand of the wicked. (Psa. 82:3‑4)
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Jer. 26:16‑19,24• 16Then said the princes and all the people 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.
 17Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
 18Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
 19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear Jehovah, and besought Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
 24Nevertheless, the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death. (Jer. 26:16‑19,24)
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Jer. 38:7‑10• 7Now when Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
 8Ebed-Melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,
 9My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
 10Then the king commanded Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. (Jer. 38:7‑10)
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John 7:51• 51Doth our law judge the man, unless it have first heard from him, and know what he doeth? (John 7:51)
such, etc.
Heb. the sons of destruction.
Psa. 79:11• 11Let the prisoner's sighing come before thee;{HR}According to the greatness of thine arm, preserve the sons of death; (Psa. 79:11)
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Psa. 79•  (Psa. 79)
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• The true remedy is for the judge of the oppressed to hear their cause patiently and render a decision in righteousness, as he cannot do if under the power of wine. (“Proverbs Thirty-One” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "sons of decease" (i.e. of those deceased).

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)