⁶ For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation. ⁷ Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place. ⁸ He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.

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Foolish Man

Cross References

Proverbs 14:6

The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

Job 5:4

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

Job 29:7-25

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

Job 31:21

If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

Proverbs 15:24

Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

Proverbs 31:8-9

Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

Isaiah 29:21

Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

Amos 5:10

They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.

Amos 5:12

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

Amos 5:15

Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

1 Corinthians 2:14

For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

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