Proverbs 24:7

A Conservative Version

Wisdom is too high for a fool. He opens not his mouth in the gate.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are profane at all times. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he puffs at them.

1 Corinthians 2:14

Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

Amos 5:15

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

Amos 5:12

For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins--ye who afflict the just man, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right].

Amos 5:10

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.

Isaiah 29:21

who make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before the face of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 15:24

To the wise man the way of life [is] upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Job 5:4

His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They shall not be put to shame when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 17:7

Excellent speech is not appropriate to a fool, much less lying lips to a prince.

Proverbs 17:16

Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

Isaiah 32:6

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profaneness, and to utter error against LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek LORD understand all things.

Proverbs 31:23

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