Proverbs 24:7 Cross References - Thomson

⁷ Wisdom and good understanding are in the gates of the wise: the wise turn not away from the commandment of the Lord:

⁴ Let their children be but far from safety, and insulted at the gates of minors, there will then be none to deliver them.

⁷ when I walked early through the city; and a seat was set for me in the streets! ⁸ The young when they saw me hid themselves; and all the aged stood up. ⁹ The nobles forbore talking and put their finger on their mouth. ¹⁰ And while they who heard me were blessing me, their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ When the ear heard me it blessed me; and the eye when it saw me, turned aside: ¹² for I saved the poor from the hand of the mighty; and assisted the orphan who had no helper. ¹³ The blessing of him who was perishing came upon me: and the mouth of the widow blessed me. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness and cloathed myself with justice as with a mantle. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to those in distress; and the cause which I knew not I searched out. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous; and plucked the prey from betwixt their teeth. ¹⁸ Therefore I said, My youth shall advance to old age. Like the stock of a palm, I shall live long. ¹⁹ My root is spread out by the water; and the dew will abide on my produce. ²⁰ This vain glory of mine shall attend me: my bow is directed by his hand. ²¹ They who heard me paid close attention; ²² and at my counsel they were silent. To my decree they added nothing But were overjoyed when I spoke to them. ²³ As the thirsty earth receiveth rain, so did they my speech. ²⁴ If I smiled on them they could scarce believe it. And the light of my countenance was not lost. ²⁵ I chose their way and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king among warriors; as one who comforteth the afflicted.

²¹ If I have raised a hand against the fatherless, because I had around me greater support:

⁵ his ways are polluted on every occasion. Thy judgments are removed from his sight; shall he have a mastery over all his enemies?

⁵ How great are thy works, Lord! How very deep are thy designs! ⁶ A senseless man cannot know; nor can the foolish comprehend them.

⁶ Thou mayest seek wisdom among the wicked, but shalt not find it; but knowledge is easily found among the prudent.

²⁴ The determinations of the wise are ways of life; that he may turn from the mansion of the dead and be saved.

²⁴ The countenance of a wise man is intelligent; but the fool's eyes are on the ends of the earth.

²² Oppress not the needy because he is poor: nor treat with disrespect at the gates one who is weak.

⁸ Open thy mouth with the word of God, and administer justice to all with a sound understanding. ⁹ Open thy mouth and judge righteously, and plead the cause of the weak and needy.

²¹ and who by reasoning cause men to err. But as for all them who reprove in the gates they will indeed lay a stumbling block, because of their having turned aside the righteous one for the unrighteous,

¹⁰ [J] They hated a reprover in the gates and held in abhorrence a holy word;

¹² [p] Because I know your manifold impieties and your sins are mighty: you trample down the righteous, take pledges and turn aside the poor in the gates;

¹⁵ We have hated evil and loved good; therefore reestablish judgment in the gates, that the Lord God Almighty may have compassion on the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁴ Now an animal man receiveth not those dictates of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, because they are to be spiritually examined;