Proverbs 24:7 Cross References - Matthew

⁷ Wisdome is an hye thyng, yea euen to the foole for he dar not open his mouth in the gate.

⁴ that his chyldren were without prosperite or healt: that they were slayne in the dore, and no man to delyuer them:

⁷ when I went thorow the cytye vnto the gate, and when they set me a chaire in the strete: ⁸ when the younge men (as sone as they sawe me) hid them selues, and when the aged arose, and stode vp vnto me: ⁹ when the Princes lefte of their talkinge, & layed their hande to their mouthe: ¹⁰ when the mighty kepte styll their voice, and when their tonges cleaued to the rofe of their mouthes. ¹¹ When al they that hearde me, called me happie: & when all they that sawe me, wyshed me good. ¹² For I delyuered the poore when he cried, and the fatherlesse that wanted helpe. ¹³ He that shoulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, and the wyddowes herte praysed me. ¹⁴ And why? I put vpon me ryghteousnes, whyche couered me as a garment, and equyte was my croune. ¹⁵ I was an eye vnto the blinde, and a fote to the lame, ¹⁶ I was a father vnto the poore and when I knew not their cause, I sought it oute diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the chaftes of the vnrighteous, and plucte the spoyle oute of their tethe. ¹⁸ Therfore, I thought verely, that I should haue dyed in my nest: & that my daies should haue bene as many as the soundes of the sea. ¹⁹ For my rote was spred oute by the waterside and the dew lay vpon my corne. ²⁰ My honour encreased more and more, and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hande. ²¹ Vnto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, and with silence they taryed for my counsel. ²² Yf I had spoken they woulde haue it none other wayes; my wordes were so well taken amonge them. ²³ They wayted for me, as the earth doeth for the rayne: and gaped vpon me, as the ground doeth to receyue the latter shower. ²⁴ When I laughed, they knew wel it was not earnest: and this testimony of my countenaunce pleased them nothinge at all. ²⁵ When I agreed vnto their waye, I was the chefe, and sat as a Kynge amonge hys seruauntes: Or as one that comforteth suche as be in heauynesse.

²¹ Dyd I euer lyfce vp my hande to hurte the fatherlesse? yea in the gate where I sawe my selfe to be in auctoryte:

⁵ Hys wayes are al waye filthye, thy iudgementes are farre out of his sight, he defyeth all his enemyes.

⁵ O Lorde, how glorious are thy workes, thy thoughtes are very depe. ⁶ An vnwyse man will not knowe thys, and a foole will not vnderstande it.

⁶ A scorneful body seketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowlege is easy to come by, vnto him that wyl vnderstand

²⁴ The waye of lyfe leadeth vnto heauen, that a man shoulde beware of hell beneth.

²⁴ Wysdome shineth in the face of hym that hath vnderstanding, but the eies of fooles wander thorow out all landes.

²² Se that thou robbe not the pore because he is weake, & oppresse not the simple in iudgment:

⁸ Be thou an aduocate, and stande in iudgement thy selfe, to speake for all such as be domme & socourles. ⁹ With thy mouth defende the thyng that is lawful and right, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.

²¹ suche as laboure to drawe men vnto synne: & that dysceyue hym, whiche reproueth them in the gate, and such as turne good personnes to vanite.

¹⁰ but they owe hym euill wil, that reproueth them openly, and who so telleth them the playn truth they abhorre hi

¹² as for the multitude of your wickednesses and your stout synnes, I know them ryghte well. Euemyes are ye of the ryghtuous, ye take rewardes, ye oppresse the poore in iudgement.

¹⁵ Hate the euil, and loue the good: set vp right agayne in the porte: & (no doute) the Lorde God of hostes shal be mercyful vnto the remnaunt of Ioseph,

¹⁴ For the naturall man perceiueth not the thinges of the spyrite of God. For they are but folishnes vnto him. Neither can he perceiue them, because he is spiritually examined.