Text -- Proverbs 31:5 (NET)

31:5 lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 31:5

¹ tn The verb means “change,” perhaps expressed in reversing decisions or removing rights.

² tn Heb “all the children of poverty.” This expression refers to the poor by nature. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the afflicted”; NIV “oppressed.”

³ 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.”