if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate;
Proverbs 24:7 - The Scriptures 2009 Wisdom is high for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Wisdom is too high for a fool; he opens not his mouth in the gate [where the city's rulers sit in judgment]. American Standard Version (1901) Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate. Common English Bible Wisdom is beyond foolish people. They don’t open their mouths in the gate. Catholic Public Domain Version Wisdom is beyond the foolish; at the gate he will not open his mouth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wisdom is too high for a fool, in the gate he shall not open his mouth. |
if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate;
His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, with no one to deliver.
His ways are always prosperous! Your right-rulings are on high, out of his sight! He snorts at all his adversaries!
Blessed is the man Who has filled his quiver with them. They are not ashamed, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
A scoffer shall seek wisdom but find none, But knowledge is swift to him who has understanding.
The path of life is upward for the wise, To turn away from She’ol below.
Why is this – a price in the hand Of a fool to buy wisdom, When there is no heart?
Wisdom is before the face of the understanding one, But the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, Much less lying lips for a noble.
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, And oppress not the afflicted at the gate.
Evil men do not understand right-ruling, But those who seek יהוה understand all.
Her husband is known in the gates, When he sits among the elders of the land.
those who make a man to sin in word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with empty reasoning.
for a fool speaks folly, and his heart works wickedness: to practise filthiness, and to speak against יהוה that which misleads, to starve the being of the hungry, and to withhold the drink from the thirsty.
They hated the one who reproves in the gate, and they despise the one who speaks the truth.
For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great, afflicting the righteous and accepting bribes, and turning aside the poor at the gate.
Hate evil and love good, and set up right-ruling in the gate. It might be that יהוה Elohim of hosts shows favour to the remnant of Yosĕph.
But the natural man does not receive the matters of the Spirit of Elohim, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.