Verse 7

Wysdome is to hye a thyng for a foole: for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scornfull body seketh wisdome, and fyndeth it not: but knowledge is easie vnto hym that wyll vnderstande.
  • Ps 10:5 : 5 His wayes are alwayes greeuous, but thy iudgementes are farre aboue out of his sight: and therfore he snuffeth at all his enemies.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the naturall man perceaueth not the thynges of ye spirite of God, for they are foolyshenesse vnto hym: Neither can he knowe them because they are spiritually discerned.
  • Ps 92:5-6 : 5 O God howe glorious are thy workes? thy thoughtes are very depe. 6 An vnwise man doth not consider this: and a foole doth not vnderstande it.
  • Job 5:4 : 4 His children were without prosperitie, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to deliuer them.
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seate, and when I prepared my seate in the streete: 8 The young men saw me and hid them selues, and the aged arose, and stoode vp. 9 The princes left of their talking, and layed their hand to their mouth: 10 The mightie kept still their voyce, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth. 11 When the eare heard me, it blessed me: & when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me: 12 For I deliuered the poore when he cryed, and the fatherlesse, and hym that had none to helpe hym. 13 The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce. 14 And why? I put vpon me righteousnesse, which couered me as a garment, and equitie was my crowne. 15 I was an eye to the blinde, and a foote to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. 17 I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the spoyle out of his teeth. 18 Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest: and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sande. 19 For my roote was spread out by the waterside: and the deawe lay vpon my corne. 20 Myne honour encreased more and more, & my bow was euer the stronger in my hande. 21 Unto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, and with scilence they taried for my counsell. 22 After my woordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them. 23 They wayted for me as for the raine: and gaped vpon me, as the grounde doeth to receaue the latter shoure. 24 When I laughed, they beleued it not, & the light of my countenaunce would they not put out. 25 When I agreed vnto their way, I was the chiefe, and sate as a king with his armie about him: and when they were in heauinesse, I was their comfortour.
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I haue lift vp mine hand against the fatherlesse, when I sawe that I might helpe him in the gate:
  • Prov 15:24 : 24 The way of lyfe is on hygh to the wise, that a man shoulde beware of hell beneath.
  • Prov 17:24 : 24 Wisdome shineth in the face of hym that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of fooles wander throughout al landes.
  • Prov 22:22 : 22 Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement:
  • Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Be thou an aduocate for the dumbe, to speake in the cause of all such as be succourlesse in this transitorie worlde. 9 Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.
  • Isa 29:21 : 21 Making a man to sinne in the worde, and that toke him in a snare, whiche reproued them in the open place, and they that haue turned the cause of the righteous to naught.
  • Amos 5:10 : 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhorre him that speaketh vprightly.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I knowe your manyfolde transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewardes, and they oppresse the poore in the gate.
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate the euill and loue the good, and establishe iudgement in the gate: it may be, that the Lord God of hoastes wilbe mercifull vnto the remnaunt of Ioseph.