the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 24:7
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Wisdom is too high for a fool: He does not open his mouth in the gate.
Foolish people cannot understand wisdom. They have nothing to say in a discussion.
Wisdom is unattainable for a fool; in court he does not open his mouth.
Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
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].
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
Wisdom is hiy to a fool; in the yate he schal not opene his mouth.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.
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Wisdom is too much for fools! Their advice is no good.Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.
Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; he keeps his mouth shut at the city gate.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.
Fools cannot understand wisdom. They have nothing to say when people are discussing important things.
Wisdom is as unattainable to a fool as corals; he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Wisedome is too high for a foole: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is too hard for a fool to understand. He does not open his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is too high for fools; in the gate they do not open their mouths.
Wisdome is hie to a foole: therefore he can not open his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom crushes a fool; he opens not his mouth in the gate.
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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.Unattainable to a foolish man, are the dictates of wisdom, in the gate, he openeth not his mouth.
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he shall not open his mouth.
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
Wysdome is to hye a thyng for a foole: for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom and good understanding are in the gates of the wise: the wise turn not aside from the mouth of the Lord,
Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool;he does not open his mouth at the city gate.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is too high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth.
Wisdom is too high for a fool, he does not open his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom [is] high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.
Wy?dome is an hie thinge, yee eue to ye foole, for he darre not ope his mouth in ye gate.
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Wise conversation is way over the head of fools; in a serious discussion they haven't a clue.Wisdom is too exalted for a fool, He does not open his mouth at the gate.
Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is too exalted for a fool, He does not open his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is too exalted for an ignorant fool,He does not open his mouth in the gate.
Contextual Overview
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
I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.
So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—
And I will give the entire land of Canaan, where you now live as a foreigner, to you and your descendants. It will be their possession forever, and I will be their God."
Abraham was now a very old man, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.
Swear by the Lord , the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.
Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac."
The servant asked, "But what if I can't find a young woman who is willing to travel so far from home? Should I then take Isaac there to live among your relatives in the land you came from?"
"No!" Abraham responded. "Be careful never to take my son there.
For the Lord , the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and my native land, solemnly promised to give this land to my descendants. He will send his angel ahead of you, and he will see to it that you find a wife there for my son.
Rebekah was very beautiful and old enough to be married, but she was still a virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up again.
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.
