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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 always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for 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, and there is none for him; but knowledge is easy unto the intelligent. (Prov. 14:6)
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Prov. 15:24• 24The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath. (Prov. 15:24)
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Prov. 17:24• 24Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; 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 always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them. (Psa. 10:5)
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Psa. 92:5‑6• 5Jehovah, how great are thy works! Thy thoughts are very deep:
 6A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it. (Psa. 92:5‑6)
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1 Cor. 2:14• 14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned; (1 Cor. 2:14)
openeth.
Prov. 22:22• 22Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; (Prov. 22:22)
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Prov. 31:8‑9• 8Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.
 9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, 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, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
 8The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;
 9Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
 10The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
 11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;
 12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
 13The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
 16I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
 17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
 18And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
 19My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
 20My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
 21Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
 22After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
 23And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
 24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.
 25I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners. (Job 29:7‑25)
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Job 31:21• 21If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because 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 pervert the judgment of the righteous by futility. (Isa. 29:21)
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Amos 5:10,12,15• 10They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
 12For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the right of the needy in the gate.
 15Hate evil, and love 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."