Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.

New American Standard Bible

Wisdom is too exalted for a fool,
He does not open his mouth in the gate.

King James Version

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Holman Bible

Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool;
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.

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] fool;
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חכמות חכמות 
Chokmowth 
Usage: 5

is too high
רוּם 
Ruwm 
Usage: 189

for a fool
אויל 
'eviyl 
Usage: 26

he openeth
פּתח 
Pathach 
Usage: 143

Context Readings

Learning From Your Father

6 For with good advice shalt thou make thy war; and in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate. 8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a master of intrigues.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:6

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and there is none for him; but knowledge is easy unto the intelligent.

Psalm 10:5

His ways always succeed; 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, and there is no deliverer:

Job 29:7-25

When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

Psalm 92:5-6

Jehovah, how great are thy works! Thy thoughts are very deep:

Proverbs 15:24

The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before 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, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.

Isaiah 29:21

that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert the judgment of the righteous by futility.

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 your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the right of the needy in the gate.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;

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