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Do not give your strength to women.
Do not give your ways to those who destroy kings.
It is not for kings, Lemuel,
it is not for kings to drink wine,
nor for rulers to crave beer.
If he does, he will drink and forget what is decreed.
He will change the legal rights of all the oppressed.
Give beer to someone who is perishing
and wine to one whose soul is bitter.
He will drink and forget his poverty,
and he will no longer remember his trouble.

Speak up for those who cannot speak.
Speak for the rights of all those who are defenseless.
Speak up, judge fairly,
and defend the oppressed and needy.

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