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Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too exalted for a [hardened, arrogant] fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate [where the city's rulers sit in judgment].

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wisdom;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Foolishness;   Wisdom;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - High;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Coral;   Fool;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Coral;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Wisdom is too lofty for fools. Among leaders at the city gate, they have nothing to say.
Update Bible Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He does not open his mouth in the gate.
New Century Version
Foolish people cannot understand wisdom. They have nothing to say in a discussion.
New English Translation
Wisdom is unattainable for a fool; in court he does not open his mouth.
Webster's Bible Translation
Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
World English Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
English Standard Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wisdom is hiy to a fool; in the yate he schal not opene his mouth.
English Revised Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Berean Standard Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.
Contemporary English Version

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Wisdom is too much for fools! Their advice is no good.
American Standard Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Bible in Basic English
Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.
Complete Jewish Bible
Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; he keeps his mouth shut at the city gate.
Darby Translation
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.
Easy-to-Read Version
Fools cannot understand wisdom. They have nothing to say when people are discussing important things.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wisdom is as unattainable to a fool as corals; he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
King James Version (1611)
Wisedome is too high for a foole: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
New Life Bible
Wisdom is too hard for a fool to understand. He does not open his mouth in the gate.
New Revised Standard
Wisdom is too high for fools; in the gate they do not open their mouths.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Wisdome is hie to a foole: therefore he can not open his mouth in the gate.
George Lamsa Translation
Wisdom crushes a fool; he opens not his mouth in the gate.
Good News Translation

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Wise sayings are too deep for stupid people to understand. They have nothing to say when important matters are being discussed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Unattainable to a foolish man, are the dictates of wisdom, in the gate, he openeth not his mouth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he shall not open his mouth.
Revised Standard Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wysdome is to hye a thyng for a foole: for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Wisdom and good understanding are in the gates of the wise: the wise turn not aside from the mouth of the Lord,
Christian Standard Bible®
Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool;he does not open his mouth at the city gate.
Hebrew Names Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
King James Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Lexham English Bible
Wisdom is too high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth.
Literal Translation
Wisdom is too high for a fool, he does not open his mouth in the gate.
Young's Literal Translation
Wisdom [is] high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wy?dome is an hie thinge, yee eue to ye foole, for he darre not ope his mouth in ye gate.
THE MESSAGE

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Wise conversation is way over the head of fools; in a serious discussion they haven't a clue.
New American Standard Bible
Wisdom is too exalted for a fool, He does not open his mouth at the gate.
New King James Version
Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Wisdom is too exalted for a fool, He does not open his mouth in the gate.
Legacy Standard Bible
Wisdom is too exalted for an ignorant fool,He does not open his mouth in the gate.

Contextual Overview

7Wisdom is too exalted for a [hardened, arrogant] fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate [where the city's rulers sit in judgment].8He who plans to do evil Will be called a schemer or deviser of evil. 9The devising of folly is sin, And the scoffer is repulsive to men.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

too: Proverbs 14:6, Proverbs 15:24, Proverbs 17:24, Psalms 10:5, Psalms 92:5, Psalms 92:6, 1 Corinthians 2:14

openeth: Proverbs 22:22, Proverbs 31:8, Proverbs 31:9, Job 29:7-25, Job 31:21, Isaiah 29:21, Amos 5:10, Amos 5:12, Amos 5:15

Reciprocal: Judges 14:14 - they could Psalms 71:19 - Thy righteousness Proverbs 28:5 - General Proverbs 31:23 - in the Matthew 16:18 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever.
Genesis 15:18
On the same day the LORD made a covenant (promise, pledge) with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates—
Genesis 17:8
"I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger [moving from place to place], all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession [of property]; and I will be their God."
Genesis 24:1
Now Abraham was old, [well] advanced in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
Genesis 24:3
and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,
Genesis 24:4
but you will [instead] go to my [former] country (Mesopotamia) and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac [the heir of the covenant promise]."
Genesis 24:5
The servant said to him, "Suppose the woman will not be willing to follow me back to this country; should I take your son back to the country from which you came?"
Genesis 24:6
Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there!
Genesis 24:7
"The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, from the land of my family and my birth, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land'—He will send His angel before you [to guide you], and you will take a wife from there for my son [and bring her here].
Genesis 24:16
The girl was very beautiful, a virgin and unmarried; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wisdom [is] too high for a fool,.... It is out of his reach, he cannot attain it; natural wisdom, or the knowledge of many things in nature; at least it seems so to himself, and therefore will not take any pains, or make use of any means, to obtain it; as the knowledge of human laws; of medicine, of philosophy, of languages, or of any of the liberal arts and sciences; or he has not really a capacity for it. This is more especially true of spiritual wisdom, or of the knowledge of divine things in a spiritual way; or of the things Of the Spirit of God, which a natural man cannot know, because they are spiritually discerned; it is God only makes men to know this kind of wisdom in the hidden part, 1 Corinthians 2:14; for as a "fool" here denotes a wicked man, let his natural parts be what they will; so wisdom spiritual knowledge, and experience of divine things, which is too high for an unregenerate man to reach; see a like phrase in Psalms 139:6;

he openeth not his mouth in the gate; he is not qualified far it; and if he has any knowledge of himself, he will not venture to speak in a public assembly, in the house of parliament, in a court of judicature, or in the company of men of knowledge and sense; and indeed it is his highest wisdom to keep silence, and not betray his ignorance: and so with regard to spiritual things; a man that wisdom is too high for, and he has no share of it, shall not or ought not to open his mouth where Wisdom cries; even in the gates of the cities, or in the public assemblies of the saints, Proverbs 1:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the gate - Compare the Proverbs 22:22 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 24:7. A fool - openeth not his mouth in the gate. — Is not put into public offices of trust and responsibility.


 
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