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Proverbs 24

Prov. 24:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Wisdom
chokmowth (Hebrew #2454)
collateral forms of 2451; wisdom
KJV usage: wisdom, every wise (woman).
Pronounce: khok-moth'
Origin: or chakmowth {khak-moth'}
is too high
ruwm (Hebrew #7311)
to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (X a-)loud, mount up, offer (up), + presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
Pronounce: room
Origin: a primitive root
f for a fool
'eviyl (Hebrew #191)
(figuratively) silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish) (man).
Pronounce: ev-eel'
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to be perverse)
: he openeth
pathach (Hebrew #6605)
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
KJV usage: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-)grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.
Pronounce: paw-thakh'
Origin: a primitive root
not his mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
in the gate
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
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Psa. 10:5• 5His ways are firm at every time;{HR}Thy judgments [are] a height away from him;{HR}All his adversaries—he puffeth at them. (Psa. 10:5)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 14:6• 6A scorner seeketh wisdom;{HR}And [there is] none for him;{HR}But knowledge [is] easy to the intelligent. (Prov. 14:6)
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Prov. 15:24• 24The path of life [is] upward for the wise,{HR}That he may depart from Sheol beneath. (Prov. 15:24)
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Prov. 17:24• 24Wisdom [is] before the face of him that hath understanding;{HR}But the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth. (Prov. 17:24)
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Psa. 10:5• 5His ways are firm at every time;{HR}Thy judgments [are] a height away from him;{HR}All his adversaries—he puffeth at them. (Psa. 10:5)
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Psa. 92:5‑6• 5How great are thy works, O Jehovah!{HR}Very deep [are] thy thoughts.
 6A brutish man knoweth not,{HR}And a fool doth not understand this. (Psa. 92:5‑6)
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1 Cor. 2:14• 14But [the] natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually examined; (1 Cor. 2:14)
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Prov. 22:22• 22Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor,{HR}Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; (Prov. 22:22)
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Prov. 31:8‑9• 8Open thy mouth for the dumb,{HR}For the cause of all those that are left desolate.
 9Open thy mouth, judge righteously,{HR}And minister justice to the afflicted and needy. (Prov. 31:8‑9)
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Job 29:7‑25• 7When I went out to the gate by the city,{HR}In the open place I established my seat;
 8Youths saw me and hid themselves{HR}And the aged rose — stood up,
 9Princes refrained from words{HR}And laid the hand on their mouth,
 10The voice of nobles was arrested,{HR}And their tongue cleaved to their palate.
 11For the ear heard and praised me,{HR}And an eye saw and testified to me.
 12For I delivered the poor that cried,{HR}And the fatherless that had no helper.
 13The blessing of the perishing came on me,{HR}And the heart of the widow I made sing.
 14Righteousness I put on, and it put me on,{HR}As a robe and a diadem mine equity.
 15I was eyes to the blind,{HR}And feet [was] I to the lame,
 16A father to the needy,{HR}And the cause I knew not I searched.
 17And I broke the jaw of the wicked,{HR}And flung the prey out of his teeth.
 18And I said, With my nest I shall expire,{HR}And as sand shall multiply my days.
 19My root is open toward the waters,{HR}And dew lodgeth all night on my branches.
 20Mine honour remaineth fresh with me,{HR}And my bow is renewed in my hand.
 21They hearken to me, they wait,{HR}And are silent for my counsel.{HR}After my word they repeat not,
 22And my discourse droppeth on them,{HR}And they wait for me as rain,
 23And their mouth they open wide [as] for the latter rain.
 24I laugh on them when they have no confidence,{HR}And the light of my face they cannot cast down.
 25I choose their way for them, and sit head,{HR}And dwelt as king in the troop, the comforter of mourners. (Job 29:7‑25)
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Job 31:21• 21If I shook my hand over the orphan,{HR}When I saw my help in the gate; (Job 31:21)
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Isa. 29:21• 21that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for nought. (Isa. 29:21)
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Amos 5:10,12,15• 10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
 12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
 15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Jehovah the God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. (Amos 5:10,12,15)
• Unable to attain to wisdom, because unwilling to repent of his evil-doing, the fool will be speechless “in the gate,” that is, when the hour of his judgment has come. See the man who ignored the wedding garment (Matt. 22:11-13). (“Proverbs Twenty-Four” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Wisdom is too high for a foold: he will not open his mouth in the gate.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "Jewels (lit. 'high-priced things') for a fool are wisdom."

W. Kelly Translation

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Wisdom [is] too high for a fool:{HR}He will not open his mouth in a gate.