Proverbs 31:3-9
Revised Standard Version
3 Give not your strength to women,
your ways to those who destroy kings.
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
it is not for kings to drink wine,
or for rulers to desire[a] strong drink;
5 lest they drink and forget what has been decreed,
and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
6 Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
and wine to those in bitter distress;
7 let them drink and forget their poverty,
and remember their misery no more.
8 Open your mouth for the dumb,
for the rights of all who are left desolate.[b]
9 Open your mouth, judge righteously,
maintain the rights of the poor and needy.
Notas al pie
- Proverbs 31:4 Cn: Heb where
- Proverbs 31:8 Heb are sons of passing away
Proverbs 31:3-9
American Standard Version
3 Give not thy strength unto women,
Nor thy ways to [a]that which destroyeth kings.
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine;
Nor for princes [b]to say, Where is strong drink?
5 Lest they drink, and forget [c]the law,
And pervert the justice due to [d]any that is afflicted.
6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish,
And wine unto the bitter in soul:
7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty,
And remember his misery no more.
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb,
In the cause of all such as are [e]left desolate.
9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously,
And minister justice to the poor and needy.
Notas al pie
- Proverbs 31:3 Or, as otherwise read, them that destroy
- Proverbs 31:4 Another reading is, to desire strong drink.
- Proverbs 31:5 Hebrew that which is decreed.
- Proverbs 31:5 Hebrew all the sons of affliction.
- Proverbs 31:8 Or, ready to pass away. Hebrew the sons of passing away.
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