Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool. He opens not his mouth in the gate.
New American Standard Bible
He does not open his mouth
King James Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Holman Bible
he does not open his mouth at the gate.
International Standard Version
Wisdom lies beyond reach of the fool; he has nothing to say in court.
American Standard Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Amplified
Wisdom is too exalted for a [hardened, arrogant]
He does not open his mouth in the gate [where the city’s rulers sit in judgment].
Bible in Basic English
Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.
Darby Translation
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.
Julia Smith Translation
High things to the foolish is wisdom: in the gate he will not open his mouth.
King James 2000
Wisdom is too lofty for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Wisdom [is too] high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth.
Modern King James verseion
Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the gate.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wisdom is a high thing; yea, even to the fool, for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.
NET Bible
Wisdom is unattainable for a fool; in court he does not open his mouth.
New Heart English Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
The Emphasized Bible
Unattainable to a foolish man, are the dictates of wisdom, in the gate, he openeth not his mouth.
Webster
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
World English Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
Youngs Literal Translation
Wisdom is high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.
Themes
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 24:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
6 For by wise guidance thou shall make thy war, and in the multitude of counselors there is safety. 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool. He opens not his mouth in the gate. 8 He who devises to do evil, men shall call him a mischief-maker.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.
Psalm 10:5
His ways are profane at all times. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he puffs at them.
Job 5:4
His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Job 29:7-25
when I went forth to the gate to the city, 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,
Psalm 92:5-6
How great are thy works, O LORD! Thy thoughts are very deep.
Proverbs 15:24
To the wise man the way of life [is] upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 22:22
Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open thy mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate.
Isaiah 29:21
who make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.
Amos 5:12
For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins--ye who afflict the just man, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right].
Amos 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate. It may be that LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.