Proverbs 31:1-9 My words have been spoken by God — the oracular answer of a king, whom his mother instructed.

CAB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ My words have been spoken by God — the oracular answer of a king, whom his mother instructed. ² What will you keep, my son, what? The words of God? My firstborn son, I speak to you: what? Son of my womb? What? Son of my vows? ³ Give not your wealth to women, nor your mind and living to remorse. Do all things with counsel: drink wine with counsel. ⁴ Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine: ⁵ lest they drink, and forget wisdom, and not be able to judge the poor rightly. ⁶ Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain, ⁷ that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles anymore. ⁸ Open your mouth with the word of God, and judge all fairly. ⁹ Open your mouth and judge justly, and plead the cause of the poor and weak.