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Open your mouth for the dumb,
    for the rights of all who are left desolate.[a]
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
    maintain the rights of the poor and needy.

Ode to a Capable Wife

10 A good wife who can find?
    She is far more precious than jewels.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 31:8 Heb are sons of passing away

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