PRO 31:9 Parallel Verse View

Note: This view shows ‘verses’ which are not natural language units and hence sometimes only part of a sentence will be visible. Normally the OET discourages the reading of individual ‘verses’, but this view is only designed for doing comparisons of different translations. Click on any Bible version abbreviation down the left-hand side to see the verse in more of its context. The OET segments on this page are still very early looks into the unfinished texts of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check these texts in advance before using in public.

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT Open your mouth, judge with righteousness,
⇔ and plead the legal case of the afflicted one and poor one.

UST Speak out and render judgment according to what is right;
⇔ and plead for justice to come in the cases of the poor and the needy.

BSB Open your mouth, judge righteously,
⇔ and defend the cause of the poor and needy.

OEB Open your mouth in just judgment.
⇔ defend the poor and the needy.

WEBBE Open your mouth, judge righteously,
⇔ and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Open your mouth, judge in righteousness,
⇔ and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

LSV Open your mouth, judge righteously,
Both the cause of the poor and needy!”

FBV Speak up and judge fairly; defend the poor and destitute.

T4T Speak [MTY] ◄on their behalf/to help them► and try to cause judges to decide matters fairly/justly;
⇔ try to cause others to do for poor and needy people what should be done for them.

LEB • and defend the poor and needy.
¶ 

BBE Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

Moff No Moff PRO book available

JPS Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

ASV Open thy mouth, judge righteously,
⇔ And minister justice to the poor and needy.

DRA Open thy mouth, decree that which is just, and do justice to the needy and poor.

YLT Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

Drby Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy.

RV Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister judgment to the poor and needy.

Wbstr Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

KJB-1769 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
(Open thy/your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. )

KJB-1611 [fn]Open thy mouth, iudge righteously, and plead the cause of the poore and needy.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

31:9 Leuit. 19. 15. deut. 1. 16.

Bshps Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.
(Open thy/your mouth, defende the thing that is lawful and ryght, and the cause of the poor and helpelesse.)

Gnva Open thy mouth: iudge righteously, and iudge the afflicted, and the poore.
(Open thy/your mouth: judge righteously, and judge the afflicted, and the poore. )

Cvdl With yi mouth defende ye thinge yt is laufull and right, and ye cause of ye poore and helplesse.
(With yi mouth defende ye/you_all thing it is lawful and right, and ye/you_all cause of ye/you_all poor and helplesse.)

Wycl and opene thi mouth for the causes of alle sones that passen forth. Deme thou that that is iust, and deme thou a nedi man and a pore man.
(and opene thy/your mouth for the causes of all sons that passen forth. Deme thou/you that that is just, and deme thou/you a nedi man and a poor man.)

Luth Tu deinen Mund auf und richte recht und räche den Elenden und Armen.
(Tu deinen Mund on and richte recht and räche the Elenden and Armen.)

ClVg Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et pauperem.][fn]
(Aperi os tuum, decerne that justum it_is, and yudica inopem and pauperem.] )

31.9 Aperi os tuum, decerne. Sicut pro causa pauperis et ereptione os aperire præcepit, ita, ubi erraverit, juste castigare admonet ac judicare. Et Moyses: Pauperis in judicio non misereberis Exod. 13.. Quod utrumque Dominum facere Propheta dicit: Sed judicabit in justitia pauperes, et arguet inæquitate pro mansuetis terræ.

31.9 Aperi os tuum, decerne. Sicut for causa pauperis and ereptione os aperire ordered, ita, where erraverit, juste castigare admonet ac yudicare. And Moyses: Pauperis in yudicio not/no misereberis Exod. 13.. That utrumque Dominum facere Propheta he_says: But yudicabit in justitia pauperes, and arguet inæquitate for mansuetis terræ.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

פְּתַח־פִּ֥י⁠ךָ שְׁפָט־צֶ֑דֶק

open mouth,your judge righteously

Lemuel’s mother is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a clause would need in order to be complete. You could supply these words from the second clause if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “Open your mouth for the afflicted one and poor one and judge them with righteousness”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

פְּתַח־פִּ֥י⁠ךָ

open mouth,your

See how you translated this phrase in the previous verse.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

צֶ֑דֶק

righteously

See how you translated the abstract noun righteousness in 1:3.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

וְ֝⁠דִ֗ין עָנִ֥י וְ⁠אֶבְיֽוֹן

and,defend poor and,needy

Here, the legal case, the afflicted one, and poor one refer to legal cases and types of people in general. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use more natural expressions. Alternate translation: “and plead any legal case of any afflicted person and any poor person”

Parallel PRO 31:9