Proverbs 24:7

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

Cross References

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 children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

Psalm 10:5

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

Proverbs 15:24

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to She'ol.

Proverbs 17:16

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

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:7

Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

Proverbs 22:22

Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Isaiah 29:21

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Isaiah 32:6

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

Amos 5:10

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

Amos 5:12

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God Tzeva'ot, will be gracious to the remnant of Yosef.*

1 Corinthians 2:14

Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.