Proverbs 24:7 - New Revised Standard Version

⁷ Wisdom is too high for fools; in the gate they do not open their mouths.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ 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)

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Common English Bible

⁷ Wisdom is beyond foolish people. They don’t open their mouths in the gate.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Wisdom is beyond the foolish; at the gate he will not open his mouth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool, in the gate he shall not open his mouth.

Proverbs 24:7 Cross References

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the orphan, because I saw I had supporters at the gate;

Job 5:4

Their children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

Psalm 10:5

Their ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of their sight; as for their foes, they scoff at them.

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for one who understands.

Proverbs 15:24

For the wise the path of life leads upward, in order to avoid Sheol below.

Proverbs 17:16

Why should fools have a price in hand to buy wisdom, when they have no mind to learn?

Proverbs 17:24

The discerning person looks to wisdom, but the eyes of a fool to the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:7

Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a ruler.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor because they are poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;

Proverbs 28:5

The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the city gates, taking his seat among the elders of the land.

Isaiah 29:21

those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate, and without grounds deny justice to the one in the right.

Isaiah 32:6

For fools speak folly, and their minds plot iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who reproves in the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks the truth.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and push aside the needy in the gate.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

1 Corinthians 2:14

Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.