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 unto him that understands.
Proverbs 15:24
The way of life leads above to the wise, that he may depart from sheol beneath.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
Psalm 10:5
His ways are always prosperous; your judgments are far above, out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.
Psalm 92:5
O LORD, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he 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 your mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all who are left desolate.
Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the open square!
Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate:
Isaiah 29:21
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.
Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
General references
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men understand not justice: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.