Verse 7

Wisdome is hie to a foole: therefore he can not open his mouth in the gate.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scorner seeketh wisdome, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easie to him that will vnderstande.
  • Ps 10:5 : 5 His wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the naturall man perceiueth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishnesse vnto him: neither can hee knowe them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • Ps 92:5-6 : 5 O Lord, how glorious are thy workes! and thy thoughtes are very deepe. 6 An vnwise man knoweth it not, and a foole doeth not vnderstand this,
  • Job 5:4 : 4 His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, & none shall deliuer them.
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete. 8 The yong men saw me, & hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp. 9 The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth. 10 The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth. 11 And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me. 12 For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce. 14 I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne. 15 I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame. 16 I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. 17 I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth. 18 Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand. 19 For my roote is spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche. 20 My glory shall renue towarde me, and my bowe shall be restored in mine hand. 21 Vnto me men gaue eare, and wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell. 22 After my wordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them. 23 And they wayted for me, as for the raine, and they opened their mouth as for the latter rayne. 24 If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the light of my countenance to fall. 25 I appoynted out their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as a King in the army, and like him that comforteth the mourners.
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,
  • Prov 15:24 : 24 The way of life is on high to the prudent, to auoyde from hell beneath.
  • Prov 17:24 : 24 Wisdome is in the face of him that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of a foole are in the corners of the world.
  • Prov 22:22 : 22 Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement.
  • Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Open thy mouth for the domme in the cause of all the children of destruction. 9 Open thy mouth: iudge righteously, and iudge the afflicted, and the poore.
  • Isa 29:21 : 21 Which made a man to sinne in ye worde, and tooke him in a snare: which reproued them in the gate, and made the iust to fall without cause.
  • Amos 5:10 : 10 They haue hated him, that rebuked in the gate: and they abhorred him that speaketh vprightly.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewards, & they oppresse the poore in ye gate.
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate the euil, and loue the good, and establish iudgement in the gate: it may bee that the Lorde God of hostes will be mercifull vnto the remnant of Ioseph.