Read the Bible
KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE

Proverbs 31:5

TEXT EDITION
Pure Cambridge Edition selected
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Share
Email linkOpen a new message in your email app
Read chapter
More
Report an issueTell us about a text or study problem

PASSAGE SELECTION

Build from either side

1 selected · 9 available

Choose up to 10 verses in this chapter. The study tools update with the selected passage.

SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE

Cross References

1 Essential passage is open for comparison.

Reference depth

From verse 5

  1. Habakkuk 2:5Rank 1 from verse 5
    Open

    5¶ Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

Definitions

Open a word for its full definition and concordance.

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 31:5

COMBINED MEANING

lest

↗

For fear that, to prevent the possibility that, or so that an undesired or warned-of result may not occur.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

forget

↗

To fail or cease to remember; to lose from mind; to neglect or disregard.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

law

↗

Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

pervert

↗

To turn aside, twist, corrupt, distort, or lead away from what is right, true, just, or intended.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

judgment

↗

The act, authority, process, cause, or result of judging; discernment, legal hearing, verdict, ordinance, justice, government, vindication, condemnation, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

READ THE PASSAGE

View in context

Suggested context · Proverbs 31:1–9

The selected passage is highlighted. Context is a study aid.

31:1THE words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

31:2What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

31:3Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

31:4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

31:5Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Selected passage

31:6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

31:7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

31:9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

LOCAL PASTOR DIRECTORY

Find a Pastor Near You

Enter a U.S. ZIP code to find nearby pastors committed to holding fast the faithful word.

Your ZIP is processed in this browser from local data. It is not sent to a ZIP lookup service or to a church. ZIP coordinates from GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.