(A)Open your mouth for the mute,
    for the rights of all who are destitute.[a]
Open your mouth, (B)judge righteously,
    (C)defend the rights of (D)the poor and needy.

The Woman Who Fears the Lord

10 [b] (E)An excellent wife who can find?
    She is far more precious than (F)jewels.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 31:8 Hebrew are sons of passing away
  2. Proverbs 31:10 Verses 10–31 are an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet

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