7Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
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.
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
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…
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