Proverbs 24:7 Cross References - MSTC

⁷ Wisdom is a high thing; yea, even to the fool, for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.

⁴ that his children were without prosperity or health; that they were slain in the door, and no man to deliver them;

⁷ When I went through the city unto the gate, and when they set me a chair in the street; ⁸ When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me; ⁹ when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth; ¹⁰ when the mighty kept still their voice, and when their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths; ¹¹ When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good. ¹² "For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help. ¹³ He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown. ¹⁵ I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth. ¹⁸ "Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea. ¹⁹ For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn. ²⁰ My honor increased more and more, and my bow was ever the stronger in my hand. ²¹ Unto me men gave ear, me they regarded, and with silence they tarried for my counsel. ²² If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them. ²³ They waited for me, as the earth doth for the rain; and gaped upon me, as the ground doth to receive the latter shower. ²⁴ When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest; and this testimony of my countenance pleased them nothing at all. ²⁵ When I agreed unto their way, I was the chief, and sat as a king among his servants; and when they were in heaviness, I was their comforter.

²¹ Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?

⁵ His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above, out of his sight. Therefore defieth he all his enemies.

⁵ O LORD, how glorious are thy works! Thy thoughts are very deep. ⁶ An unwise man will not know this, and a fool will not understand it —

⁶ A scornful body seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; but knowledge is easy to come by, unto him that will understand.

²⁴ The way of life leadeth unto heaven; that a man should beware of hell beneath.

²⁴ Wisdom shineth in the face of him that hath understanding; but the eyes of fools wander throughout all lands.

²² See that thou rob not the poor because he is weak, and oppress not the simple in judgment;

⁸ Be thou an advocate and stand in judgment thyself, to speak for all such as be dumb and sucourless. ⁹ With thy mouth defend the thing that is lawful and right, and the cause of the poor and helpless.

²¹ such as labour to draw men unto sin; and that deceive him which reproveth them in the gate; and such as turn good persons to vanity.

¹⁰ But they owe him evil will, that reproveth them openly: and whoso telleth them the plain truth, they abhor him.

¹² As for the multitude of your wickednesses and your stout sins, I know them right well. Enemies are ye of the righteous; ye take rewards; ye oppress the poor in judgment.

¹⁵ Hate the evil, and love the good. Set up right again in the port and, no doubt, the LORD God of hosts shall be merciful unto the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁴ For the natural man perceiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are but foolishness unto him: Neither can he perceive them, because he is spiritually examined.