Proverbs 31:7
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Let him drinke, and forget his pouertie, and remember his misery no more.
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Proverbs 31:7
Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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To fail or cease to remember; to lose from mind; to neglect or disregard.
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The condition of being poor, destitute, or lacking necessary provision.
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1. To retain in mind or call back to mind; to recall. 2. To keep in mind with heed, observance, commemoration, or corresponding action. 3. To take account of a person, promise, deed, sin, or need and act with regard to it.
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Great distress, affliction, suffering, or wretchedness.
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31:1THE words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
31:1¶ The wordes of King Lemuel, the prophecie that his mother taught him.
31:2What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
31:2What, my sonne! and what, the sonne of my wombe! and what, the sonne of my vowes!
31:3Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
31:3Giue not thy strength vnto women, nor thy wayes 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:
31:4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drinke wine, nor for Princes, strong drinke:
31:5Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
31:5††Lest they drinke, and forget the Law, and peruert the iudgement of any of the afflicted.
31:6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
31:6*†Giue strong drinke vnto him that is ready to perish, and wine vnto those that be of heauie hearts.
31:7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
31:7Let him drinke, and forget his pouertie, and remember his misery no more.
Selected passage31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
31:8†Open thy mouth for the dumbe 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.
31:9*Open thy mouth, iudge righteously, and plead the cause of the poore and needy.