Pro 31:5 | NET2full | STEP | lest they drink and forget what is decreed and remove from all the poor their legal rights .

‏ Proverbs 31:5

5 lest they drink and forget what is decreed
and remove ^{▼▼tn The verb means “change,” perhaps expressed in reversing decisions or removing rights.} from all the poor ^{▼▼tn Heb “all the children of poverty.” This expression refers to the poor by nature. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the afflicted”; NIV “oppressed.”} their legal rights. ^{▼▼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.”}