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Proverbs 31:5

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

XREF

Hab 2:5

NET © Notes

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

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

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.”



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