Proverbs 24:7
Modern Translations
New International Version
Wisdom is too high for fools; in the assembly at the gate they must not open their mouths.

New Living Translation
Wisdom is too lofty for fools. Among leaders at the city gate, they have nothing to say.

English Standard Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

Berean Study Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.

New American Standard Bible
Wisdom is too exalted for a fool, He does not open his mouth at the gate.

NASB 1995
Wisdom is too exalted for a fool, He does not open his mouth in the gate.

NASB 1977
Wisdom is too high for a fool, He does not open his mouth in the gate.

Amplified Bible
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].

Christian Standard Bible
Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool; he does not open his mouth at the city gate.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool; he does not open his mouth at the gate.

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom is too much for fools! Their advice is no good.

Good News Translation
Wise sayings are too deep for stupid people to understand. They have nothing to say when important matters are being discussed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Matters of wisdom are beyond the grasp of a stubborn fool. At the city gate he does not open his mouth.

International Standard Version
Wisdom lies beyond reach of the fool; he has nothing to say in court.

NET Bible
Wisdom is unattainable for a fool; in court he does not open his mouth.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

New King James Version
Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate.

King James 2000 Bible
Wisdom is too lofty for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.

New Heart English Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

World English Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

American King James Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.

American Standard Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.

A Faithful Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the gate.

Darby Bible Translation
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.

English Revised Version
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Webster's Bible Translation
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Wisdome is hie to a foole: therefore he can not open his mouth in the gate.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Wysdome is to hye a thyng for a foole: for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
wysdome is an hie thinge, yee eue to ye foole, for he darre not ope his mouth in ye gate.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Wisdom [is] high for a fool, he does not open his mouth in the gate.

Young's Literal Translation
Wisdom is high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.

Smith's Literal Translation
High things to the foolish is wisdom: in the gate he will not open his mouth.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wisdom is too high for a fool, in the gate he shall not open his mouth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Wisdom is beyond the foolish; at the gate he will not open his mouth.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Wisdom casts out the fool and he does not open his mouth in the gate.

Lamsa Bible
Wisdom crushes a fool; he opens not his mouth in the gate.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Wisdom is as unattainable to a fool as corals; He openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Wisdom and good understanding are in the gates of the wise: the wise turn not aside from the mouth of the Lord,
















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