SCRIPTURE
Proverbs 31:1–10
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- 31:1
These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him:
- 31:2
What shall I say, O my son? What, O son of my womb? What, O son of my vows?
- 31:3
Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
- 31:4
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
- 31:5
lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.
- 31:6
Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.
- 31:7
Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
- 31:8
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
- 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
- 31:10
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.