Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,
The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.
How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep! The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:
if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square, the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood; the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth; the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved,
His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
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