Proverbs 24:7

Revised Version 1885

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, Because 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 firm at all times; Thy judgements are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

Psalm 127:5

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

Proverbs 14:6

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

Proverbs 15:24

To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

Proverbs 17:16

Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding?

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before the face of 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 judgement: 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 in a cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

Isaiah 32:6

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Amos 5:10

They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Amos 5:12

For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.

Amos 5:15

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

1 Corinthians 2:14

Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.