Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't 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 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.
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 guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors. 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate. 8 One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
Psalm 10:5
His ways are prosperous at all times. Your judgments are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
Job 5:4
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Job 29:7-25
when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
Psalm 92:5-6
How great are your works, LORD. Your thoughts are very deep.
Proverbs 15:24
The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 22:22
Do not exploit the poor, because he is poor; and do not crush the needy in court;
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
Isaiah 29:21
who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
Amos 5:12
For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins?you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.