Verse List for PROV 31:8

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B I ◄ ← Prov 31:8 ↓ → ═ ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Open your mouth for those who can’t speak— ⇔ for the cause of all those who are dying.

OET-LV Open mouth _of_your for_the_dumb to the_cause _of all _of the_sons _of passing _away.

ULT Open your mouth for a mute one, ⇔ for the legal claim of all the sons of the one passing away.

UST Defend those who cannot speak for themselves; ⇔  defend all those whom others are threatening to kill so that they get what they legally deserve.

BSB & MSB Open your mouth for those with no voice, ⇔  for the cause of all the dispossessed.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

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

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

LSV Open your mouth for the mute,
For the right of all sons of change.

FBV Speak up for those who have no voice, for the rights of those marginalized by society.

T4T ⇔  Speak [MTY] to defend people who are unable to defend themselves; ⇔  speak to encourage others to do what is right for those who are helpless.

LEB • Open your mouth for the mute,
• for the rights[fn] of all the needy .[fn]

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

Moff Do justice to a widow, ⇔  and let orphans have their rights;

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

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

DRA Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the children that pass.

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

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

RV Open thy mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are left desolate.
(Open thy/your mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are left desolate.)

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

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

KJB-1769 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.[fn]
(Open thy/your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.)

KJB-1611 [fn]Open thy mouth for the dumbe in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

Bshps Be thou an aduocate for the dumbe, to speake in the cause of all such as be succourlesse in this transitorie worlde.
(Be thou/you an aduocate for the dumb, to speak in the cause of all such as be succour/support/assistancelesse in this transitorie world.)

Gnva Open thy mouth for the domme in the cause of all the children of destruction.
(Open thy/your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all the children of destruction.)

Cvdl Be thou an aduocate & stonde in iudgment thyself, to speake for all soch as be dome & sucourles.
(Be thou/you an aduocate and stand in judgement thyself/yourself, to speak for all such as be dome and sucourles.)

Wycl Opene thi mouth for a doumb man,
(Opene thy/your mouth for a dumb man,)

Luth Tu deinen Mund auf für die Stummen und für die Sache aller, die verlassen sind.
(Do/Act your(s) mouth on/in/to for/in_favour_of the mute_(ones) and for/in_favour_of the matter all, the leave are.)

ClVg Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.[fn]
(Aperi mouth your(sg) muto, and reasons of_all of_children who/which pertranseunt.)

UHB פְּתַח־פִּ֥י⁠ךָ לְ⁠אִלֵּ֑ם אֶל־דִּ֝֗ין כָּל־בְּנֵ֥י חֲלֽוֹף׃ ‡

BrLXX No BrLXX PROV 31:8 verse available

BrTr No BrTr PROV 31:8 verse available