Proverbs 24:7

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Cross References

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, When I saw my 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 grievous; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

Psalm 127:5

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

Proverbs 14:6

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: But knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

Proverbs 15:24

The way of life is above to the wise, That he may depart from hell beneath.

Proverbs 17:16

Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, Seeing he hath no heart to it?

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:7

Excellent speech becometh 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 judgment: But they that seek the LORD understand all things.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth 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 reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Isaiah 32:6

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise 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 rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh 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 judgment 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 receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.