Proverbs 31:5 lest they drink and forget what the law decrees, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.

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New International Version (©1984)
lest they drink and forget what the law decrees, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For they will drink and forget what is decreed, And pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Otherwise, they drink and forget what they have decreed and change the standard of justice for all oppressed people.

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

American King James Version
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

American Standard Version
Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.

Bible in Basic English
For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

Darby Bible Translation
lest they drink And forget the law, And pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction.

English Revised Version
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any that is afflicted.

Webster's Bible Translation
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

World English Bible
lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

Young's Literal Translation
Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

Geneva Study Bible

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

King James Translators' Notes

prevert: Heb. alter

of any...: Heb. of all the sons of affliction

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

31:1-9 When children are under the mother's eye, she has an opportunity of fashioning their minds aright. Those who are grown up, should often call to mind the good teaching they received when children. The many awful instances of promising characters who have been ruined by vile women, and love of wine, should warn every one to avoid these evils. Wine is to be used for want or medicine. Every creature of God is good, and wine, though abused, has its use. By the same rule, due praise and consolation should be used as cordials to the dejected and tempted, not administered to the confident and self-sufficient. All in authority should be more carefully temperate even than other men; and should be protectors of those who are unable or afraid to plead their own cause. Our blessed Lord did not decline the bitterest dregs of the cup of sorrow put into his hands; but he puts the cup of consolation into the hands of his people, and causes those to rejoice who are in the deepest distress.

Exodus 23:6 "You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.

Deuteronomy 16:19 "You shall not distort justice; you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

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

prevent Hab 2:5

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