Proverbs 24:7

The Passion Translation

Wisdom is a treasure too lofty for a quarreling fool — he’ll have nothing to say when leaders gather together.

Cross References

Psalm 10:5

So successful are they in their schemes and prosperous in all their plans! Your laws are far from them; they scoff at their enemies.

Psalm 127:5

Happy will be the couple who has many of them! A household full of children will not bring shame on your name but victory when you face your enemies, for your offspring will have influence and honor to prevail on your behalf!

Proverbs 14:6

The intellectually arrogant seek for wisdom, but they never seem to discover what they claim they’re looking for. For revelation-knowledge flows to the one who hungers for understanding.

Proverbs 15:24

The life-paths of the prudent lift them progressively heavenward, delivering them from the death spirals that keep tugging them downward.

Proverbs 17:16

Why pay tuition to educate a fool? For he has no intention of acquiring true wisdom.

Proverbs 17:24

Even the face of a wise man shows his intelligence. But the wandering eyes of a fool will look for wisdom everywhere except right in front of his nose.

Proverbs 17:7

It is not proper for a leader to lie and deceive, and don’t expect excellent words to be spoken by a fool.

Proverbs 22:22

Never oppress the poor or pass laws with the motive of crushing the weak.

Proverbs 28:5

Justice never makes sense to men devoted to darkness, but those tenderly devoted to the Lord can understand justice perfectly.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is famous and admired by all, sitting as the venerable judge of his people.

Isaiah 29:21

Those who make the innocent appear guilty, those who ensnare others with deceitful tactics, and those who lie to keep the innocent from getting justice will likewise be destroyed.

Isaiah 32:6

for the fool is recognized by his foolish words. Their minds plot treachery, they excel in ungodliness, and they say misleading things about Yahweh. They refuse to feed the hungry or give drink to the thirsty.

1 Corinthians 2:14

Someone living on an entirely human level rejects the revelations of God’s Spirit, for they make no sense to him. He can’t understand the revelations of the Spirit because they are only discovered by the illumination of the Spirit.