if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child when I saw that I had support in the city gate,
Proverbs 24:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool; he does not open his mouth at the city gate. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Wisdom is too high for a fool; he opens not his mouth in the gate [where the city's rulers sit in judgment]. American Standard Version (1901) Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate. Common English Bible Wisdom is beyond foolish people. They don’t open their mouths in the gate. Catholic Public Domain Version Wisdom is beyond the foolish; at the gate he will not open his mouth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wisdom is too high for a fool, in the gate he shall not open his mouth. |
if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child when I saw that I had support in the city gate,
His children are far from safety. They are crushed at the city gate, with no one to rescue them.
A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.
For the prudent the path of life leads upwards, so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.
Why does a fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive, but a fool’s eyes roam to the ends of the earth.
Eloquent words are not appropriate on a fool’s lips; how much worse are lies for a ruler.
Don’t rob a poor person because he is poor, and don’t crush the oppressed at the city gate,
The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand everything.
Her husband is known at the city gates, where he sits among the elders of the land.
those who, with their speech, accuse a person of wrongdoing, who set a trap for the one mediating at the city gate and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.
For a fool speaks foolishness and his mind plots iniquity. He lives in a godless way and speaks falsely about the Lord. He leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate, and they despise the one who speaks with integrity.
For I know that your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.
Hate evil and love good; establish justice at the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.