Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth 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.
A Conservative Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool. He opens 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 shalt make thy war; And in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate. 8 He that deviseth to do evil, Men shall call him a mischief-maker.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.
Psalm 10:5
His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
Job 5:4
His children 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 unto 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 Jehovah! Thy thoughts are very deep.
Proverbs 15:24
To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of him that hath understanding; But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 22:22
Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.
Isaiah 29:21
that make a man an offender in his cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.
Amos 5:10
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Amos 5:12
For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins-ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that 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 Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.