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 scorner seeketh wisdom, and there is none for him; but knowledge is easy unto the intelligent.
Proverbs 15:24
The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Psalm 10:5
His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
Psalm 92:5
Jehovah, how great are thy works! Thy thoughts are very deep:
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;
Openeth
Proverbs 22:22
Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
Proverbs 31:8
Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.
Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:
Isaiah 29:21
that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert the judgment of the righteous by futility.
Amos 5:10
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
General references
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek Jehovah understand everything.