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the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is unattainable for a fool; in court he does not open his mouth.

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

Legacy Standard Bible
Wisdom is too exalted for an ignorant 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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wysdome is to hye a thyng for a foole: for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.
Darby Translation
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.
New King James Version
Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate.
Literal Translation
Wisdom is too high for a fool, he does 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.
World English Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
King James Version (1611)
Wisedome is too high for a foole: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
King James Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
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.
Amplified Bible
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].
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.
Update Bible Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He does not open his mouth in the gate.
Webster's Bible Translation
Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Contemporary English Version

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Wisdom is too much for fools! Their advice is no good.
Complete Jewish Bible
Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; he keeps his mouth shut at the city gate.
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.
Hebrew Names Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wisdom is as unattainable to a fool as corals; he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
New Living Translation
Wisdom is too lofty for fools. Among leaders at the city gate, they have nothing to say.
New Life Bible
Wisdom is too hard for a fool to understand. He does 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,
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.
New Revised Standard
Wisdom is too high for fools; in the gate they do not open their mouths.
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.
Lexham English Bible
Wisdom is too high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth.
English Standard Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
New American Standard Bible
Wisdom is too exalted for a fool, He does not open his mouth at the gate.
New Century Version
Foolish people cannot understand wisdom. They have nothing to say in a discussion.
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool; he does not open his mouth at the gate.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wisdom is hiy to a fool; in the yate he schal not opene his mouth.
Revised Standard Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
Young's Literal Translation
Wisdom [is] high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.

Contextual Overview

7 Wisdom is unattainable for a fool; in court he does not open his mouth. 8 The one who plans to do evil will be called a scheming person. 9 A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.

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
I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.
Genesis 15:18
That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—
Genesis 17:8
I will give the whole land of Canaan—the land where you are now residing—to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God."
Genesis 24:1
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed him in everything.
Genesis 24:3
so that I may make you solemnly promise by the Lord , the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.
Genesis 24:4
You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:5
The servant asked him, "What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"
Genesis 24:6
"Be careful never to take my son back there!" Abraham told him.
Genesis 24:7
"The Lord , the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.' He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 24:16
Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back 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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