"Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate."
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His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
That 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 a thing of nought.
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
For 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.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
Wisdom `is' high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.