Proverbs 24:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Proverbs 24:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 14:6
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
Psalms 10:5
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Isaiah 29:21
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Proverbs 15:24
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-9)

Here is the description, 1. Of a weak man: Wisdom is too high for him; he thinks it so, and therefore, despairing to attain it, he will take no pains in the pursuit of it, but sit down content without it. And really it is so; he has not capacity for it, and therefore the advantages he has for getting it are all in vain to him. It is no easy thing to get wisdom; those that have natural parts good e…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. (Compare Pr 14:16). in the gate--(Compare Pr 22:22).