Proverbs 24:7 Cross References - MKJV

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

⁴ His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, nor is there any to deliver them.

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; and the aged arose and stood up. ⁹ The rulers held back from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. ¹⁰ The noble's voice was subdued, and their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ For the ear heard and blessed me. And the eye saw me and witnessed to me. ¹² For I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of the perishing came on me; and I caused 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 to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I did not know, I searched out. ¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the prey out of his teeth. ¹⁸ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my 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 in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. ²¹ They listened to me, and waited, and kept silent at 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 smiled kindly on them when they did not believe; and they did not make the light of my face fall. ²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat as chief; and I lived like a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

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

⁵ His ways are always perverted; Your judgments are high, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

⁵ O Jehovah, how great are Your works; Your purposes are very deep. ⁶ A beastly man does not know; nor does a fool understand this.

⁶ A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

²⁴ The way of life is above to the wise, so that he may turn away from hell below.

²⁴ Wisdom is before him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor press down the afflicted in the gate;

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

²¹ those who make a man guilty by a word, and lay 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. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.

¹⁵ Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate. It may be that the Lord Jehovah of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

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