Proverbs 31:6-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁶ Give strong drink to one 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 Speak out for those who cannot speak,
    for the rights of all the destitute.^[a](A)
9 Speak out; judge righteously;
    defend the rights of the poor and needy.^(B)