Proverbs 24:7

World English Bible (2000)

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
  • Ps 10:5 : 5 His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • Ps 92:5-6 : 5 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep. 6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
  • Job 5:4 : 4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street. 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood. 9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. 11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me: 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him, 13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out. 17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth. 18 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand. 19 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch. 20 My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.' 21 "Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel. 22 After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them. 23 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain. 24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face. 25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
  • Job 31:21 : 21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
  • Prov 15:24 : 24 The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
  • Prov 17:24 : 24 Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
  • Prov 22:22 : 22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;
  • Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."
  • Isa 29:21 : 21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
  • Amos 5:10 : 10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:9
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    9Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

  • Prov 14:6-8
    3 verses
    79%

    6A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

    7Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.

    8The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • Prov 17:24
    78%

    24Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

  • Prov 10:14
    78%

    14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

  • Prov 14:33
    78%

    33Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

  • Prov 12:23
    77%

    23A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

  • Prov 29:11
    77%

    11A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

  • Prov 17:28
    77%

    28Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

  • Prov 14:24
    76%

    24The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

  • Prov 13:16
    76%

    16Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

  • Prov 17:16
    76%

    16Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

  • Prov 15:2
    76%

    2The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

  • Prov 12:15
    76%

    15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

  • Eccl 10:3
    75%

    3Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

  • Prov 14:3
    75%

    3The fool's talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

  • Prov 26:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4Don't answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • Prov 15:14
    75%

    14The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

  • Prov 10:8
    75%

    8The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

  • Prov 15:7
    75%

    7The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

  • Prov 15:21
    74%

    21Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

  • Eccl 10:12-15
    4 verses
    74%

    12The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

    13The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

    14A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

    15The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.

  • Eccl 9:17
    74%

    17The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

  • Prov 18:2
    74%

    2A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

  • Prov 18:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

    7A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

  • Prov 16:22
    74%

    22Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

  • Eccl 7:4-5
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    74%

    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

    5It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

  • Prov 19:1
    73%

    1Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

  • Prov 1:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

    21She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

  • Prov 10:21
    73%

    21The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

  • Prov 10:23
    73%

    23It is a fool's pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding's pleasure.

  • Prov 26:12
    72%

    12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

  • Prov 14:16
    72%

    16A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.

  • Prov 8:5
    72%

    5You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.

  • Ps 92:6
    72%

    6A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

  • 1 Cor 3:19
    72%

    19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

  • Prov 24:6
    72%

    6for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

  • Prov 19:10
    72%

    10Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

  • Prov 9:13
    72%

    13The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

  • Prov 14:18
    72%

    18The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

  • Prov 26:9
    71%

    9Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

  • Prov 17:7
    71%

    7Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.