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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.”

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

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