Defend the weak and the fatherless;(A)
    uphold the cause of the poor(B) and the oppressed.

Read full chapter

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Read full chapter

[a]Defend the poor and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and (A)needy.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 82:3 Vindicate

Saying 2

22 Do not exploit the poor(A) because they are poor
    and do not crush the needy in court,(B)

Read full chapter

22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Read full chapter

22 Do not rob the (A)poor because he is poor,
Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;

Read full chapter

lest they drink(A) and forget what has been decreed,(B)
    and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.

Read full chapter

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Read full chapter

(A)Lest they drink and forget the law,
And pervert the justice of all [a]the afflicted.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 31:5 Lit. sons of affliction