Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the gate.
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 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 you shall make your war; and in a multitude of wise men there is safety. 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the gate. 8 He who plots to do evil shall be called a master of wicked thoughts.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 14:6
A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.
Psalm 10:5
His ways are always perverted; Your judgments are high, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he puffs at them.
Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, nor is there any to deliver them.
Job 29:7-25
when I went out to the gate by the city; when I prepared my seat in the street!
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate;
Psalm 92:5-6
O Jehovah, how great are Your works; Your purposes are very deep.
Proverbs 15:24
The way of life is above to the wise, so that he may turn away from hell below.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 22:22
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor press down the afflicted in the gate;
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open your mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all the sons of those passing away.
Isaiah 29:21
those who make a man guilty by a word, and lay a trap for the reprover in the gate, and turn aside the just for a worthless thing.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who rebukes in the gate, and they despise him who speaks uprightly.
Amos 5:12
For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.
Amos 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate. It may be that the Lord Jehovah of Hosts will be gracious to 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 foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.