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 in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
Proverbs 15:24
The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.
Proverbs 17:24
The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
Psalm 10:5
His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
Psalm 92:5
How great are your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep!
1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Openeth
Proverbs 22:22
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,
Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.
Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,
Job 31:21
if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
Isaiah 29:21
who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
General references
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.