Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is beyond a fool's reach, so he stays silent where decisions are made.

Cross-references · 15

• Prov 14:6A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
• 1 Cor 2:14Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Ps 10:5His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
• Ps 92:5–6How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
• Prov 31:8–9Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
• Isa 29:21who 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.
• Job 5:4His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
• Prov 15:24The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
• Amos 5:10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
• Prov 22:22Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
• Prov 17:24Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
• Amos 5:12For 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 5:15Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
• Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
• Job 29:7–25when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

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