lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove ¹  from all the poor ²  their legal rights. ³ 

biblegateway Pro 31:5

For they will drink and forget what is decreed, And pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

Otherwise, they will drink, forget what is decreed, and pervert justice for all the oppressed.

Otherwise, they drink and forget what they have decreed and change the standard of justice for all oppressed people.

biblegateway Pro 31:5

lest they drink and forget what the law decrees, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.

lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

bibleoremus Pro 31:5

or else they will drink and forget what has been decreed, and will pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

If they drink, they will forget rights and customs and twist the law against all who are defenceless.

biblegateway Pro 31:5

Lest they drink and forget the law, And pervert the justice of all the afflicted.

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

biblegateway Pro 31:5

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove ¹  from all the poor ²  their legal rights. ³ 

¹ tn The verb means “change,” perhaps expressed in reversing decisions or removing rights.

² tn Heb “all the children of poverty.” This expression refers to the poor by nature. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the afflicted”; NIV “oppressed.”

³ 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.”