Albert Barnes Commentary Proverbs 31:8

"Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate." — Proverbs 31:8 (ASV)

In contrast with the two besetting sins of Eastern monarchs stands their one great duty: to give help to those who had no other helper.

Such as are appointed to destruction — literally, “children of bereavement,” with the sense, either, as in the text, of those “destined to be bereaved of life or goods,” or of “bereaved or fatherless children.”