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Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
    and wine to those in bitter distress.[a]
He will drink and forget his poverty,
    and his misery he will not remember any more.
Open your mouth for the mute,
    for the rights[b] of all the needy.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 31:6 Literally “to bitterness of soul”
  2. Proverbs 31:8 Hebrew “right”
  3. Proverbs 31:8 Literally “the sons of the needy”