“ Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. ”
In the gate - Compare the Proverbs 22:22 note.
Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the (a) gate. (a) In the place where wisdom should be shown.
Proverbs 24:7 a. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9 . though...
Wisdom. Hebrew, plural. true wisdom. See notes on Proverbs 1:20 ; Proverbs 9:1 . and Compare Proverbs 14:1 . is too high . seems to be, or is regarded as coral: i.e. as an ornament costly, and...
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. A fool - openeth not his mouth in the gate - Is not put into public offices of trust and responsibility.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. Wisdom is too high for a fool - to attain unto. The difficulty lies not in wisdom, which is easy to the sincere, but in th...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'
Wisdom is too high for a fool. — For “wisdom” (literally, wisdoms ) , comp. note on Proverbs 1:20 . He has been too self-willed to learn; so while others express their opinions when the business...
CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor t...
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding i...
Wisdom [is] too high for a fool ,.... It is out of his reach, he cannot attain it; natural wisdom, or the knowledge of many things in nature; at least it seems so to himself, and therefore will not...
Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. Ver. 7. Wisdom is too hard for a fool. ] Heb., Too high; his pericranium comprehends it not, "neither indeed can" do. 1Co 2...
Wisdom is too high for a fool For a wicked man, whose sins enfeeble his mind, and make it incapable of wisdom. Or, he judges it too difficult for him to understand: he despairs of attaining it, bec...
7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. 8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. 9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the...
Wisdom is too high for a fool; either, 1. Really, it is above his reach or capacity. Or, 2. In his opinion; he judgeth it too hard for him, he despairs of attaining it, he pretends the impossib...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 24:7 . Wisdom is too high, etc. Delitzsch here reads, Wisdom seems to the fool to be an ornamental commodity , and thinks “the comparison lies in the rarity, costliness...
Proverbs 24:1 . Be not envious against evil men. Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1 ; Psalms 73 ; Proverbs 17:1 . Why should we envy the wicked? We are all going to lie in the common dust; t...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. Be not thou envious against evil men (see on Proverbs 23:17 , where a similar warning is given, and comp...
v. 7. Wisdom is too high, altogether unattainable, for a fool; he openeth not his mouth in the gate, he cannot be consulted by the leading men of the city as they deliberate upon the welfare of t...
1 Corinthians 2:14 ; Amos 5:10 ; Amos 5:12 ; Amos 5:15 ; Isaiah 29:21 ; Job 29:7-25 ; Job 31:21 ; Proverbs 14:6 ; Proverbs 15:24 ; Proverbs 17:24 ; Proverbs 22:22 ; Proverbs 31:8 ; Prove...
A fool — For a wicked man, whose sins enfeeble his mind, and make it incapable of wisdom. Openeth not — He knows not how to speak acceptably, and profitably in the publick assembly.