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 findeth it not: but knowledge is easy to him that understandeth.
Proverbs 15:24
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell 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 are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Psalm 92:5
O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to 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 thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when 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 turn aside the just for a thing of naught.
Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
General references
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.