Proverbs 24:7 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ 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)

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Common English Bible

⁷ Wisdom is beyond foolish people. They don’t open their mouths in the gate.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Wisdom is beyond the foolish; at the gate he will not open his mouth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool, in the gate he shall not open his mouth.

Proverbs 24:7 Tagairtí Cros

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate;

Job 5:4

His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

Psalm 10:5

His ways prosper at all times; thy judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

Proverbs 15:24

The wise man's path leads upward to life, that he may avoid Sheol beneath.

Proverbs 17:16

Why should a fool have a price in his hand to buy wisdom, when he has no mind?

Proverbs 17:24

A man of understanding sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:7

Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

Isaiah 29:21

who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.

Isaiah 32:6

For the fool speaks folly, and his mind plots iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Amos 5:10

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.