Proverbs 24:7

Learning From Your Father

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For by wise guidance you can wage your war,
And in an abundance of [wise] counselors there is victory and safety. ⁷ 
Wisdom is too exalted for a [hardened, arrogant] fool;
He does not open his mouth in the gate [where the city’s rulers sit in judgment]. ⁸
He who plans to do evil
Will be called a schemer or deviser of evil.

Foolish Man

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none [for his ears are closed to wisdom],
But knowledge is easy for one who understands [because he is willing to learn].

Psalm 10:5

His ways prosper at all times;
Your judgments [Lord] are on high, out of his sight [so he never thinks about them];
As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

Job 5:4

“His children are far from safety [and included in their father’s ruin],
They are oppressed and crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate,
And there is no one to rescue them.

Job 29:7-25

“When I went out to the gate of the city,
When I took my seat [as a city father] in the square,

Job 31:21

If I have lifted my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw [that the judges would be] my help at the [council] gate,

Psalm 92:5-6

How great are Your works, O Lord!
Your thoughts are very deep [beyond man’s understanding].

Proverbs 15:24

The [chosen] path of life leads upward for the wise,
That he may keep away from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) below.

Proverbs 17:24

[Skillful and godly] wisdom is in the presence of a person of understanding [and he recognizes it],
But the eyes of a [thickheaded] fool are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor because he is poor [and defenseless],
Nor crush the afflicted [by legal proceedings] at the gate [where the city court is held],

Proverbs 31:8-9

Open your mouth for the mute,
For the rights of all who are unfortunate and defenseless;

Isaiah 29:21

Those who cause a person to be condemned with a [false] word,
And lay a trap for him who upholds justice at the [city] gate,
And defraud the one in the right with meaningless arguments.

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who reprimands [the unrighteous] in the [court held at the city] gate [regarding him as unreasonable and rejecting his reprimand],
And they detest him who speaks [the truth] with integrity and honesty.

Amos 5:12

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great (shocking, innumerable),
You who distress the righteous and take bribes,
And turn away from the poor in the [court of the city] gate [depriving them of justice].

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good,
And establish justice in the [court of the city] gate.
Perhaps the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph [that is, those who remain after God’s judgment].

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural [unbelieving] man does not accept the things [the teachings and revelations] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness [absurd and illogical] to him; and he is incapable of understanding them, because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated, [and he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters].