Proverbs 24:7

Modern English Version

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

May his children be far from safety, and may they be crushed in the gate without a deliverer;

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always prosperous; Your judgments are high and distant from him; as for all his enemies, he scoffs at them.

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and does not find it, but knowledge comes easily to him who is discerning.

Proverbs 15:24

The way of life leads upward for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol below.

Proverbs 17:16

Why is money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom since he has no heart for it?

Proverbs 17:24

The sight of the discerning is toward wisdom, but the eyes of the fool are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:7

Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

Proverbs 22:22

Exploit not the poor, because he is poor, and oppress not the afflicted at the gate,

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, But those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Isaiah 29:21

those who cause a man to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with meaningless arguments.

Isaiah 32:6

for the vile person will speak nonsense, and his heart will work iniquity: to practice hypocrisy and to utter error against the Lord, to keep the hungry unsatisfied and to withhold drink from the thirsty.

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who prosecutes at the gate, and abhor the one who speaks with integrity.

Amos 5:12

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are grievous, you who oppress the just, who take a bribe and subvert the needy at the gate.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice at the gate. It may then 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; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.