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lest they drink and forget what is decreed,
and remove[a] from all the poor[b] their legal rights.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 31:5 tn The verb means “change,” perhaps expressed in reversing decisions or removing rights.
  2. Proverbs 31:5 tn Heb “all the children of poverty.” This expression refers to the poor by nature. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the afflicted”; NIV “oppressed.”
  3. Proverbs 31:5 sn The word is דִּין (din, “judgment”; so KJV). In this passage it refers to the cause or the plea for justice, i.e., the “legal rights.”