Proverbs 24:7 Cross References - EJ2000

⁷ ¶ Wisdom, is too high for a fool; he shall not open his mouth in the gate.

⁴ His sons are far from saving health, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and there shall be no one to deliver them.

⁷ ¶ When I went out to the gate to judgment, when I had my seat prepared in the plaza! ⁸ The young men would see me and hide themselves, and the aged would arise and stand. ⁹ The princes would refrain from talking and lay their hand on their mouth; ¹⁰ the voice of the principals would not be noticed, and their tongue would cleave to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ When the ears that heard me, called me blessed; and when the eyes that saw me, gave witness to me: ¹² because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him. ¹³ The blessing of the one that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me as a robe; and my diadem was judgment. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy; and the cause which I did not know I searched out. ¹⁷ And I broke the fangs of the wicked and caused their teeth to release the prey. ¹⁸ ¶ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. ¹⁹ My root is spread out by the waters, and the dew shall remain upon my branches. ²⁰ My glory is renewed with me, and my bow is renewed in my hand. ²¹ They would hear me and wait, and keep silent at my counsel. ²² After my words they would not reply, but my reason 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 at them, they did not believe it; and they did not cast down the light of my countenance. ²⁵ I approved their way and sat at the head and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate;

⁵ His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

⁵ O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. ⁶ A carnal man does not know, neither does a fool understand this:

⁶ ¶ The scorner sought wisdom and found it not, but wisdom comes easy unto him that understands.

²⁴ ¶ The way of life is uphill to the wise, that he may separate himself from Sheol below.

²⁴ ¶ Wisdom appears upon the countenance of him that has understanding, but the eyes of a fool manifest his folly unto the ends of the earth.

²² ¶ Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment:

⁸ Open thy mouth for those who cannot speak in the judgment of all the sons of death. ⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and destitute.

²¹ Those that made men to sin in word; those that laid a snare for him that reproved in the gate, and turned that which is just into vanity.

¹⁰ They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

¹² For I have known of your many rebellions and your great sins that afflict the just and take a ransom and turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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

¹⁴ But the natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he understand them because they are spiritually discerned.