Proverbs 24:7

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Wisdom is too high 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 my helper 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 crooked; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs 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 scorner seeks wisdom, and does not find it: but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

Proverbs 15:24

The way of life is above for the wise, so that he may depart from hell 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 in the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:7

Excellent speech is not suitable for a fool: much less lying lips for a prince.

Proverbs 22:22

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

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand judgment: but those who 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 worthless thing.

Isaiah 32:6

For the vile person will speak villainy, 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 who rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him who 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 to the remnant of Joseph.

1 Corinthians 2:14

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