Parallel Verses
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.
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 counsel thou shalt make thy war, and in the multitude of counsellors there is saving health.
7
He does not open his mouth
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 14:6
The scorner sought wisdom and found it not, but wisdom comes easy unto him that understands.
Psalm 10:5
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.
Job 5:4
His sons are far from saving health, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and there shall be no one to deliver them.
Job 29:7-25
When I went out to the gate to judgment, when I had my seat prepared in the plaza!
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate;
Psalm 92:5-6
O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
Proverbs 15:24
The way of life is uphill to the wise, that he may separate himself from Sheol below.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom appears upon the countenance of him that has understanding, but the eyes of a fool manifest his folly unto the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 22:22
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment:
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open thy mouth for those who cannot speak in the judgment of all the sons of death.
Isaiah 29:21
Those that made men to sin in word; those that laid a snare for him that reproved in the gate, and turned that which is just into vanity.
Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
Amos 5:12
For I have known of your many rebellions and your great sins that afflict the just and take a ransom and turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Amos 5:15
Hate the evil and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate; it may be that the LORD God of the hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he understand them because they are spiritually discerned.