Proverbs 24:7

Learning From Your Father

⁶ for you should wage war with sound guidance—
victory comes with many counselors. ⁷ Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool;
he does not open his mouth at the gate. ⁸ The one who plots evil
will be called a schemer.

Foolish Man

Proverbs 14:6

A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it,
but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always secure;
Your lofty judgments are beyond his sight;
he scoffs at all his adversaries.

Job 5:4

His children are far from safety.
They are crushed at the city gate,
with no one to rescue them.

Job 29:7-25

When I went out to the city gate
and took my seat in the town square,

Job 31:21

if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

Psalm 92:5-6

How magnificent are Your works, Lord,
how profound Your thoughts!

Proverbs 15:24

For the discerning the path of life leads upward,
so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive,
but a fool’s eyes roam to the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 22:22

Don’t rob a poor man because he is poor,
and don’t crush the oppressed at the gate,

Proverbs 31:8-9

Speak up for those who have no voice,
for the justice of all who are dispossessed.

Isaiah 29:21

those who, with their speech,
accuse a person of wrongdoing,
who set a trap at the gate for the mediator,
and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who convicts the guilty
at the city gate
and despise the one who speaks with integrity.

Amos 5:12

For I know your crimes are many
and your sins innumerable.
They oppress the righteous, take a bribe,
and deprive the poor of justice at the gates.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good;
establish justice in the gate.
Perhaps the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious
to the remnant of Joseph.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.