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 doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
Proverbs 15:24
The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
Psalm 10:5
His ways are prosperous at all times. Your judgments are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
Psalm 92:5
How great are your works, LORD. Your thoughts are very deep.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Openeth
Proverbs 22:22
Do not exploit the poor, because he is poor; and do not crush the needy in court;
Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
Job 29:7
when I went forth to the city gate, 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 cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
General references
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men do not understand justice; but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.