Proverbs 24:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.”
Read Proverbs 24:7 in the flow of Proverbs24 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Proverbs24 to see the surrounding context.
“Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Wisdom <FI>is<Fi> high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 24:7 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
- Job 29:7When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
- Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
- Psalms 10:5He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
- Psalms 92:5How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
- Proverbs 14:6A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
- Proverbs 15:24The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.
- Proverbs 17:24Wisdom is the focus of the discerning, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
- Proverbs 22:22Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
- Proverbs 28:5Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.
- Proverbs 31:8Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
- Proverbs 31:23Her husband is known at the city gate, where he sits among the elders of the land.
- Isaiah 29:21those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
- Amos 5:10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
- Amos 5:12For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
- Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
- 1 Corinthians 2:14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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