Proverbs 24:7 Cross References - Darby

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

⁴ His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:

⁷ When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway, ⁸ The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up; ⁹ Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth; ¹⁰ The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate. ¹¹ When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me; ¹² For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper. ¹³ The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow`s heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out; ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. ¹⁸ And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand; ¹⁹ My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch; ²⁰ My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand. ²¹ Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel: ²² After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them; ²³ And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. ²⁴ [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance. ²⁵ I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

⁵ His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; [as for] all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

⁵ Jehovah, how great are thy works! Thy thoughts are very deep: ⁶ A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.

⁶ A scorner seeketh wisdom, and there is none [for him]; but knowledge is easy unto the intelligent.

²⁴ The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

²⁴ Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate. ⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy.

²¹ that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert [the judgment of] the righteous by futility.

¹⁰ They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

¹² For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside [the right of] the needy in the gate.

¹⁵ Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁴ But [the] natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually discerned;