Proverbs 31:5

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove ¹  from all the poor ²  their legal rights. ³ 

biblegateway Pro 31:5

lest they drink and forget what the law decrees, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.

biblegateway Pro 31:5

For they will drink and forget what is decreed, And pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

biblegateway Pro 31:5

For if they drink, they may forget their duties and be unable to give justice to those who are oppressed.

biblegateway Pro 31:5

Lest, hung over, they don't know right from wrong, and the people who depend on them are hurt.

SABDAweb Pro 31:5

For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

bibleoremus Pro 31:5

or else they will drink and forget what has been decreed, and will pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

biblegateway Pro 31:5

Lest they drink and forget the law, And pervert the justice of all the afflicted.

biblegateway Pro 31:5

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove ¹  from all the poor ²  their legal rights. ³ 

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.”