(A)Open your mouth for the speechless,
In the cause of all who are [a]appointed to die.
Open your mouth, (B)judge righteously,
And (C)plead the cause of the poor and needy.

The Virtuous Wife

10 (D)Who[b] can find a [c]virtuous wife?
For her worth is far above rubies.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 31:8 Lit. sons of passing away
  2. Proverbs 31:10 Vv. 10–31 are an alphabetic acrostic in Hebrew; cf. Ps. 119
  3. Proverbs 31:10 Lit. a wife of valor, in the sense of all forms of excellence

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