Proverbs 24:7 Cross References - Rotherham

⁷ Unattainable to a foolish man, are the dictates of wisdom, in the gate, he openeth not his mouth.

⁴ His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:

⁷ When I went out to the gate unto the city, in the open place, made ready my seat, ⁸ Young men saw me, and hid themselves, and, the aged, arose––they stood; ⁹ Rulers, restrained speech, and, a hand, laid they on their mouth; ¹⁰ The voice of nobles, was hushed, and their tongue to their palate, did cleave; ¹¹ When, the ear, heard, then it pronounced me happy, When, the eye, saw, then it bare me witness; ¹² Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper; ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish, upon me was wont to descend, and, the heart of the widow, caused I to sing for joy; ¹⁴ Righteousness, I put on, and it clothed me, Like a robe and turban, was my, justice; ¹⁵ Eyes, became I to the, blind, and, feet to the lame, was, I! ¹⁶ A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out; ¹⁷ And I shivered the fangs of the perverse,––and, out of his teeth, I tare the prey.
¹⁸ Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days: ¹⁹ My root, is laid open to the waters, and, the dew, shall lodge for the night in my boughs; ²⁰ Mine honour, shall be young again with me, and, my bow, in my hand, be renewed. ²¹ To me, men hearkened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel; ²² After I had spoken, they spake not again, and, upon them, used my speech to drop; ²³ And they waited, as for rain, for me, and, their mouths, they opened wide for the spring–rain; ²⁴ I laughed at them––they lost confidence, and, the light of my countenance, they suffered not to fail; ²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat chief,––and abode, as king, in an army, as one who, to mourners, giveth comfort.

²¹ If I shook––against the fatherless––my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,

⁵ His ways are firm at all times, On high, are thy righteous regulations, out of his sight, As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them:

⁵ How great have grown thy works, Yahweh, [How] very deep are laid thy plans! ⁶ A man that is brutish, cannot know, And, a dullard, cannot discern this:––

⁶ A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and there is none, but, knowledge, to the discerning, is easy.

²⁴ The way of life, is upwards to the prudent, that he may depart from hades beneath.

²⁴ Before the face of the discerning, is wisdom, but, the eyes of a dullard, are in the ends of the earth.

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;

⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all the children of the departed. ⁹ Open thy mouth––judge righteously,––and administer justice for the poor and the needy.

²¹ Who bring a man into condemnation with a rumour, And, for him that decideth in the gate, lay a snare,––And have driven away, for a thing of nought, one who was righteous.

¹⁰ They hate the man who, in the gate, rebuketh,––and, him who speaketh truthfully, they abhor.

¹² For I know how numerous are your transgressions, and how surpassing your sins,––ye adversaries of the righteous! ye acceptors of a bribe! Even the needy in the gate, have they turned away!

¹⁵ Hate wrong, and love right, and station, Justice, in the gate,––Peradventure, Yahweh, God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁴ But, a man of the soul, doth not welcome the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, and he cannot get to know them, because, spiritually, are they examined;