Proverbs 24:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ Wisdom is high for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate.

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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.

Proverbs 24:7 Cross References

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate;

Job 5:4

His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, with no one to deliver.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always prosperous! Your right-rulings are on high, out of his sight! He snorts at all his adversaries!

Psalm 127:5

Blessed is the man Who has filled his quiver with them. They are not ashamed, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer shall seek wisdom but find none, But knowledge is swift to him who has understanding.

Proverbs 15:24

The path of life is upward for the wise, To turn away from the grave below.

Proverbs 17:16

Why is this – a price in the hand Of a fool to buy wisdom, When there is no heart?

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before the face of the understanding one, But the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:7

Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, Much less lying lips for a noble.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor because he is poor, And oppress not the afflicted at the gate.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand right-ruling, But those who seek יהוה  understand all.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the gates, When he sits among the elders of the land.

Isaiah 29:21

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.

Isaiah 32:6

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.

Amos 5:10

They hated the one who reproves in the gate, and they despise the one who speaks the truth.

Amos 5:12

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.

Amos 5:15

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 Yosĕ

1 Corinthians 2:14

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.