Proverbs 24:7 Cross References - MLV

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool. He opens not his mouth in the gate.

⁴ His sons are far from safety and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

⁷ when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street.
⁸ The young men saw me and hid themselves and the aged rose up and stood. ⁹ The rulers refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth. ¹⁰ The voice of the ranking men was hushed and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me.
¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him who 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. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and I was feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy and I searched out the case of he whom I did not know. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
¹⁸ Then I said, I will die in my nest and I will multiply my days as the sand. ¹⁹ My root is spread out to the waters and the dew lays all night upon my limb s. ²⁰ My glory is fresh in me and my bow is renewed in my hand.
²¹ To me men gave ear and waited and kept silence for my counsel. ²² After my words they spoke not again and my speech distilled upon them. ²³ And they waited for me as for the rain. And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
²⁴ I smiled on them when they had no confidence and they did not cast down the light of my countenance. ²⁵ I chose out their way and sat as chief and dwelt as a king in the army, as a man who comforts the mourners.

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

⁵ His ways are profane at all times. Your judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

⁵ How great are your works, O Jehovah! Your thoughts are very deep. ⁶ A stupid man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.

⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds it not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.

²⁴ To the wise man the way of life is upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

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

²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.

⁸ Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate. ⁹ Open your mouth, judge righteously and minister justice to the poor and needy.

²¹ who make a man an offender in his cause and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

¹⁰ They hate he who reproves in the gate and they abhor he who speaks uprightly.

¹² For I know how great are your* transgressions and how mighty are your* sins–you* who afflict the just man, who take a bribe and who turn aside the needy in the gate.

¹⁵ Hate the evil and love the 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 Now the physical man is not accepting the things from the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually examined.