Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Wisdom is high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not 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.
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.
Themes
Interlinear
Ruwm
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 24:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
6 For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors. 7 Wisdom is high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth. 8 Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 14:6
A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent is easy.
Psalm 10:5
Pain do his ways at all times, On high are Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries -- he puffeth at them.
Job 5:4
Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
Job 29:7-25
When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.
Job 31:21
If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,
Psalm 92:5-6
How great have been Thy works, O Jehovah, Very deep have been Thy thoughts.
Proverbs 15:24
A path of life is on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.
Proverbs 17:24
The face of the intelligent is to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.
Proverbs 22:22
Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.
Isaiah 29:21
Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.
Amos 5:10
They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.
Amos 5:12
For I have known -- many are your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.
Amos 5:15
Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.
1 Corinthians 2:14
and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know them, because spiritually they are discerned;