Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Proverbs 31:5-9 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

5. Drinking makes you forgetyour responsibilities,and you ill-treat the poor.

6. Beer and wine are onlyfor the dying or for thosewho have lost all hope.

7. Let them drink and forgethow poor and miserablethey feel.

8. But you must defendthose who are helplessand have no hope.

9. Be fair and give justiceto the poor and homeless.