Ecclesiastes 24:7

Nova Vulgata

Excelsa stulto sapientia, in porta non aperiet os suum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Attollite portas, principes, vestras, et elevamini, port� �ternales, et introibit rex glori�.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Excelsa stulto sapientia;
in porta non aperiet os suum.

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

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.