Proverbs 24:7

New International Version

Wisdom is too high for fools; in the assembly at the gate they must not open their mouths.

Cross References

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,

Job 5:4

His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always prosperous; your laws are rejected by him; he sneers at all his enemies.

Psalm 127:5

Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.

Proverbs 14:6

The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.

Proverbs 15:24

The path of life leads upward for the prudent to keep them from going down to the realm of the dead.

Proverbs 17:16

Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?

Proverbs 17:24

A discerning person keeps wisdom in view, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:7

Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool— how much worse lying lips to a ruler!

Proverbs 22:22

Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,

Proverbs 28:5

Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.

Isaiah 29:21

those who with a word make someone out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.

Isaiah 32:6

For fools speak folly, their hearts are bent on evil: They practice ungodliness and spread error concerning the Lord; the hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold water.

Amos 5:10

There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.