Proverbs 24:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

Cross References

Job 31:21

If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

Job 5:4

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

Proverbs 14:6

The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

Proverbs 15:24

Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

Proverbs 17:16

How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:7

Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

Isaiah 29:21

Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

Isaiah 32:6

For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

Amos 5:10

They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.

Amos 5:12

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

Amos 5:15

Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

1 Corinthians 2:14

For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.