Proverbs 24:7

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 14:6

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy.

Psalm 10:5

The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord's throne is in heaven: His eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Amos 5:12

Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sine: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

Amos 5:10

They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.

Isaiah 29:21

That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.

Proverbs 22:22

Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 15:24

The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell.

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:

Job 5:4

His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate: and there shall be none to deliver them.

Psalm 127:5

May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayest thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

Proverbs 17:7

Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.

Proverbs 17:16

What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.

Isaiah 32:6

For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry and take away drink from the thirsty.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men think not on judgment: but they that seek after the Lord, take notice of all things.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land.