Proverbs 24:7

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:6 : 6 ¶ A scorner seeketh wisdom, and [findeth it] not: but knowledge [is] easy unto him that understandeth.
  • Ps 10:5 : 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
  • Ps 92:5-6 : 5 O LORD, how great are thy works! [and] thy thoughts are very deep. 6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
  • Job 5:4 : 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 ¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame. 16 I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. 18 ¶ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand. 19 My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 20 My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 21 Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. 22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. 23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain. 24 [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. 25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
  • Prov 15:24 : 24 ¶ The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
  • Prov 17:24 : 24 ¶ Wisdom [is] before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth.
  • Prov 22:22 : 22 ¶ Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
  • Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
  • Isa 29:21 : 21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
  • Amos 5:10 : 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

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