Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Wisdom [is too] high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth.
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.
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
Ruwm
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 24:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
6 For with wise guidance you shall make war for yourself, and victory [is] in an abundance of counsel. 7 Wisdom [is too] high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth. 8 He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief."
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge {comes easily to him who understands}.
Psalm 10:5
His ways endure at all times. Your judgments are aloof from him. [As for] all his enemies, he scoffs at them.
Job 5:4
His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer--
Job 29:7-25
"At my going out [the] gate to [the] city, I secured my seat in the square.
Job 31:21
if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate,
Psalm 92:5-6
How great are your deeds, O Yahweh; [how] very deep are your thoughts.
Proverbs 15:24
The path of life [leads] upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below.
Proverbs 17:24
He who understands sets [his] face [toward] wisdom, but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.
Proverbs 22:22
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate;
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the {needy}.
Isaiah 29:21
those who mislead a person into sin with a word and set a trap for the {arbitrator} in the gate and guide away [the] righteous by emptiness.
Amos 5:10
They hate the one who reproves in the gate and they abhor the one who speaks honestly.
Amos 5:12
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
Amos 5:15
Hate evil and love good and establish justice in the gate; perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious [to] the remnant of Joseph.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.