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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 always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, 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 findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. (Prov. 14:6)
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Prov. 15:24• 24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell 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 are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. (Psa. 10:5)
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Psa. 92:5‑6• 5O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
 6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool 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 foolishness unto him: neither can he 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 in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
 9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. (Prov. 31:8‑9)
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Job 29:7‑25• 7When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
 8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
 9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
 10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
 11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
 12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
 13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
 16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
 17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
 18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
 19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
 20My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
 21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
 22After my words they spake 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 the light of my countenance they cast not down.
 25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. (Job 29:7‑25)
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Job 31:21• 21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, 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 a thing of 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 the Lord 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."