Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
General references
Bible References
Too
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.
Proverbs 15:24
To the wise man the way of life [is] upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Psalm 10:5
His ways are profane at all times. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he puffs at them.
Psalm 92:5
How great are thy works, O LORD! Thy thoughts are very deep.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.
Openeth
Proverbs 22:22
Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.
Proverbs 31:8
Open thy mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate.
Job 29:7
when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
Isaiah 29:21
who make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.
General references
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek LORD understand all things.