Proverbs 24:7

King James 2000

Wisdom is too lofty for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.

Cross References

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate:

Job 5:4

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

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always prosperous; your judgments are far above, out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understands.

Proverbs 15:24

The way of life leads above to the wise, that he may depart from sheol beneath.

Proverbs 17:16

Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no heart for it?

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:7

Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

Proverbs 22:22

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men understand not justice: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Isaiah 29:21

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

Isaiah 32:6

For the foolish person will speak foolishness, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Amos 5:10

They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

Amos 5:12

For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Amos 5:15

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

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.