Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Proverbs 24:7 in other translations
| BSB | Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place. |
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| WEB | Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate. |
| ASV | Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate. |
| YLT | Wisdom is high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth. |
| DARBY | Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate. |
| BBE | Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place. |
| Webster | Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. |
What does Proverbs 24:7 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 24:7-9
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Proverbs 24:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 24:7
- Proverbs 14:6
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
- Psalms 10:5
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
- 1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- Psalms 92:5-6
O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
- Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
- Proverbs 15:24
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
- Job 29:7-25
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. …
- Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
- Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
- Proverbs 31:8-9
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
- Amos 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
- Isaiah 29:21
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
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Context
- Proverbs 24:6
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
- Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
- Proverbs 24:8
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
Proverbs 24:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Alta está para el insensato la sabiduría: en la puerta no abrirá él su boca. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | La sagesse est trop haute pour le fou, il n’ouvrira pas la bouche dans la porte. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Weisheit ist dem Narren zu hoch, im Tore tut er seinen Mund nicht auf. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Excelsa stulto sapientia; in porta non aperiet os suum. |