Proverbs 24:7

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Wisdom is high to a fool; in the gate he shall not open his mouth.

Cross References

Job 31:21

if I raised up mine hand upon a fatherless child, yea, when I saw me the higher in the gate;

Job 5:4

His sons shall be made far from health, and they shall be defouled in the gate, and there shall be none that shall deliver them.

Psalm 10:5

his ways be defouled in all time. Thy dooms be taken away from his face; he shall be lord of all his enemies.

Psalm 127:5

Blessed is the man, that hath [full-]filled his desire of those [or them]; he shall not be shamed, when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 14:6

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and he findeth it not; the teaching of prudent men is easy.

Proverbs 15:24

The path of life is on a learned man; that he bow away from the last hell.

Proverbs 17:16

What profiteth it to a fool to have riches, since he may not buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh falling; and he that escheweth to learn, shall fall into evils.

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom shineth in the face of a prudent man; the eyes of fools be in the ends of earth.

Proverbs 17:7

Words well-set together beseem not a fool; and a lying lip becometh not a prince.

Proverbs 22:22

Do thou not violence to a poor man, for he is poor; neither defoul thou a needy man in the gate.

Proverbs 28:5

Wicked men think not on doom; but they that seek the Lord, perceive all things.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is noble in the gates, when he sitteth with the senators of [the] earth.

Isaiah 29:21

which made men to do sin in word, and deceived a reprover in the gate, and bowed away in vain from a just [or rightwise] man.

Isaiah 32:6

Forsooth a fool shall speak folly things, and his heart shall do wicked-ness, that he perform feigning, and speak to the Lord guilefully; and he shall make void the soul of an hungry man, and shall take away drink from a thirsty man.

Amos 5:10

They hated a man reproving in the gate, and they loathed a man speaking perfectly.

Amos 5:12

For I knew your great trespasses many, and your strong sins; enemies of the rightwise man, taking a gift, and bearing down poor men in the gate.

Amos 5:15

Hate ye evil, and love ye good, and ordain ye in the gate doom; if peradventure the Lord God of hosts have mercy on the remnants of Joseph.

1 Corinthians 2:14

For a beastly man perceiveth not those things that be of the Spirit of God; for it is folly to him, and he may not understand, for it is examined, [or assayed], ghostly.