jps - Proverbs:31:1-9

jps@Proverbs:31:1 @ The words of king Lemuel; the burden wherewith his mother corrected him.

jps@Proverbs:31:2 @ What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? and what, O son of my vows?

jps@Proverbs:31:3 @ Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

jps@Proverbs:31:4 @ It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine: nor for princes to say: 'Where is strong drink?'

jps@Proverbs:31:5 @ Lest they drink, and forget that which is decreed, and pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.

jps@Proverbs:31:6 @ Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter in soul;

jps@Proverbs:31:7 @ Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

jps@Proverbs:31:8 @ Open thy mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

jps@Proverbs:31:9 @ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.