Proverbs 24:7 Cross References - LITV

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

⁴ His sons are far from safety; yea, they are crushed in the gate; nor is there any deliverer.

⁷ when I went out to the gate by the city; when I prepared my seat in the street. ⁸ The young men saw me and hid themselves; the aged rose up, stood up; ⁹ the rulers held back with words, and they laid a hand on their mouth; ¹⁰ the leaders' voice was hidden; yea, their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw, and witnessed for me. ¹² For I delivered the poor who cried for help and the orphan who had no helper to him. ¹³ The blessing of the perishing came on me; and I made the widow's heart to sing. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet for the lame. ¹⁶ I was father to the poor, and the cause which I did not know, I searched out. ¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the perverse, and cast the prey out of his teeth. ¹⁸ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply days like the sand. ¹⁹ My root was open to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch. ²⁰ My glory was fresh with me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. ²¹ They listened to me and waited, and kept silence for my counsel. ²² After my words, they did not go on, and my speech dropped on them. ²³ And they waited for me like the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. ²⁴ I laughed on those when they did not believe, and they did not make the light of my face to fall. ²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat as chief; and I lived like a king among the troops; as the mourners, and he who comforts.

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the orphan, when I watched over my help in the gate;

⁵ His ways are perverted at all times. Your judgments are high from his sight; as for all his vexers, he puffs at them.

⁵ O Jehovah, Your purposes are very deep. How great are Your works! ⁶ An animal-like man does not know; a fool does not understand this.

⁶ A scorner seeks wisdom, but finds it not, yet knowledge is swift to the discerning.

²⁴ The path of life is upward to the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol downward.

²⁴ With the face of the wise is wisdom, but a fool's eyes are in the ends of the earth.

²² Rob not the poor because he is poor, and oppress not the afflicted in the gate.

⁸ Open your mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all the sons of those passing away. ⁹ Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the poor and needy.

²¹ those who make a man sin by a word, even laying a trap for the reprover in the gate, and turn aside the just for a worthless thing.

¹⁰ They hate him who rebukes in the gate, and they despise him who speaks uprightly.

¹² For I know your many transgressions, and your many sins: afflicting the just, taking of a bribe, and turning aside the poor in the gate.

¹⁵ Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah the God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁴ But a natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.