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 2:14 He puts off the study of it, pretending the impossibility of reaching to it.
He openeth not his mouth in the gate.] He were two fools if he should, for while he holds his tongue he is held wise.