Verse 7

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scorner seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.
  • Ps 10:5 : 5 His ways are always grievous; Your judgments are far above, out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • Ps 92:5-6 : 5 O LORD, how great are your works! And your thoughts are very deep. 6 A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.
  • Job 5:4 : 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver them.
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square! 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves; even the aged arose and stood. 9 The princes refrained from speaking, and laid their hands on their mouths. 10 The nobles kept silence, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths. 11 When the ear heard me, it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it approved me; 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper. 13 The blessing of a dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a crown. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the case I did not know. 17 And I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the victim from his teeth. 18 Then I said, 'I will die in my nest, and I will multiply my days as the sand.' 19 My root spread out to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch. 20 My glory was fresh within me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 21 Men listened to me and waited, and kept silence for my counsel. 22 After my words they spoke not again; and my speech fell gently upon them. 23 They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths wide as for the latter rain. 24 If I smiled at them, they could hardly believe it; and the light of my countenance they did not cast down. 25 I chose their path and sat as their chief, and lived as a king among his troops, as one who comforts the mourners.
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I have lifted 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 in the sight of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
  • Prov 22:22 : 22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
  • Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Speak for those who cannot speak, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
  • Isa 29:21 : 21 That make a man an offender by a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.
  • Amos 5:10 : 10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know your many 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 evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.