Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Open thy mouth, judge righteously,…. Having heard the cause, pronounce a righteous sentence; deliver it freely and impartially, with all readiness and boldness, not caring for the censures of wicked and unjust men;

and plead the cause of the poor and needy; who are oppressed by the rich, cannot plead for themselves, nor fee others to plead for them; do thou do it freely and faithfully. Thus as Lemuel’s mother cautions him against women and wine, she advises him to do the duties of his office in administering impartial justice to all, and particularly in being the advocate and judge of the indigent and distressed.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

9. Plead the cause Vindicate the right of the poor and the needy. The language and ideas are very similar to some portions of Psalms 72. Compare Pro 31:2; Pro 31:4, Pro 31:12-14 of that psalm. It is possible that the author was familiar with that beautiful production.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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

Ver. 9. Plead the cause of the poor and needy. ] These are God’s great care, as appears in many texts. Job comforted himself in this, that he had been “eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, a father to the poor,” &c. Job 29:15-16 Ebedmelech is renowned for pleading the cause of the poor prophet, and so should Pharaoh’s butler have been if he had done it sooner. Master Holt, who was of counsel to Master Pryn, when so unjustly censured in the Star Chamber, but refused, through cowardice, to sign his answer, according to promise, being overawed by the prelates, bewailed his own baseness to his wife and friends; and, soon after falling sick for conceit only of the miscarriage of that cause, he died, never going to the Star Chamber after that bloody sentence. a

a New Discoveries of the Prelate’s Tyranny, p. 47, 48.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

the poor- a poor one. Hebrew. ‘ani. See note on Pro 31:6, Pro 31:11.

needy = a needy one. Hebrew. ‘ ebyon. See note on Pro 31:6, Pro 31:11.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

Pro 16:12, Pro 20:8, Lev 19:15, Deu 1:16, Deu 16:18-20, 2Sa 8:15, Psa 58:1, Psa 58:2, Psa 72:1, Psa 72:2, Job 29:12, Job 29:15, Job 29:16, Isa 1:17, Isa 1:23, Isa 11:4, Isa 32:1, Isa 32:2, Jer 5:28, Jer 22:3, Jer 22:15, Jer 22:16, Jer 23:5, Dan 4:27, Amo 5:11, Amo 5:12, Zec 7:9, Zec 9:9, Joh 7:24, Heb 1:9, Rev 19:11

Reciprocal: Deu 25:1 – General 1Sa 19:4 – spake good 1Sa 20:32 – Wherefore 1Sa 22:14 – And who 2Sa 23:3 – must be just Pro 24:7 – openeth Pro 31:26 – openeth Ecc 3:7 – and a time to speak Jer 21:12 – deliver Jer 38:9 – these Eze 18:8 – hath executed Hab 1:13 – holdest Mat 5:2 – General Rom 13:4 – he is

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge