Proverbs 24:7

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

Psalm 10:5

His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

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.

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 turn aside the needy in the gate.

Amos 5:10

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

Isaiah 29:21

who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,

Proverbs 17:24

The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 15:24

The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.

Job 31:21

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

Job 5:4

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

Psalm 127:5

Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 17:7

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

Proverbs 17:16

Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?

Isaiah 32:6

For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with 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.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Proverbs 31:23

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