| Proverbs 24:7 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Wisdom is too exalted for a fool, He does not open his mouth in the gate. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Matters of wisdom are beyond the grasp of a stubborn fool. At the city gate he does not open his mouth.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. |
| ASV: | Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate. |
| BBE: | Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place. |
| DBY: | Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate. |
| ERV: | Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. |
| JPS: | Wisdom is as unattainable to a fool as corals; he openeth not his mouth in the gate. |
| WBS: | Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. |
| WEB: | Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate. |
| YLT: | Wisdom is high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth. |
| Proverbs 24:7 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 5:4 "His sons are far from safety, They are even oppressed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
Psalm 10:5 His ways prosper at all times; Your judgments are on high, out of his sight; As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.
Psalm 127:5 How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them; They will not be ashamed When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
Proverbs 14:6 A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none, But knowledge is easy to one who has understanding.
Proverbs 17:16 Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, When he has no sense? (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 24:7 Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the {a} gate.
(a) In the place where wisdom should be shown. |
| WES: | 24:7 A fool - For a wicked man, whose sins enfeeble his mind, and make it incapable of wisdom. Openeth not - He knows not how to speak acceptably, and profitably in the publick assembly. |
| MHC: | 24:1,2 Envy not sinners. And let not a desire ever come into thy mind, Oh that I could shake off restraints! 3-6. Piety and prudence in outward affairs, both go together to complete a wise man. By knowledge the soul is filled with the graces and comforts of the spirit, those precious and pleasant riches. The spirit is strengthened for the spiritual work and the spiritual warfare, by true wisdom. 7-9. A weak man thinks wisdom is too high for him, therefore he will take no pains for it. It is bad to do evil, but worse to devise it. Even the first risings of sin in the heart are sin, and must be repented of. Those that strive to make others hateful, make themselves so. 10. Under troubles we are apt to despair of relief. But be of good courage, and God shall strengthen thy heart. 11,12. If a man know that his neighbour is in danger by any unjust proceeding, he is bound to do all in his power to deliver him. And what is it to suffer immortal souls to perish, when our persuasions and example may be the means of preventing it? 13,14. We are quickened to the study of wisdom by considering both the pleasure and the profit of it. All men relish things that are sweet to the palate; but many have no relish for the things that are sweet to the purified soul, and that make us wise unto salvation. 15,16. The sincere soul falls as a traveller may do, by stumbling at some stone in his path; but gets up, and goes on his way with more care and speed. This is rather to be understood of falls into affliction, than falls into actual sin. |
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