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Proverbs 14:6
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and[ findeth it] not: but knowledge[ is] easy unto him that understandeth.
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Psalms 10:5
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments[ are] far above out of his sight:[ as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
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1 Corinthians 2 14
But 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.
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Psalms 92:5-6
O LORD, how great are thy works![ and] thy thoughts are very deep.A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
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Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom[ is] before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool[ are] in the ends of the earth.
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Job 29:7-25
When I went out to the gate through the city,[ when] I prepared my seat in the street!The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose,[ and] stood up.The princes refrained talking, and laid[ their] hand on their mouth.The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.When the ear heard[ me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw[ me], it gave witness to me:Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and[ him that had] none to help him.The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment[ was] as a robe and a diadem.I was eyes to the blind, and feet[ was] I to the lame.I[ was] a father to the poor: and the cause[ which] I knew not I searched out.And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply[ my] days as the sand.My root[ was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.My glory[ was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.Unto me[ men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide[ as] for the latter rain.[ If] I laughed on them, they believed[ it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one[ that] comforteth the mourners.
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Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
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Amos 5:12
For 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].
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Amos 5:15
Hate 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.
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Proverbs 22:22
Rob not the poor, because he[ is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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Proverbs 15:24
The way of life[ is] above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
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Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither[ is there] any to deliver[ them].
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Proverbs 31:8-9
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
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Isaiah 29:21
That 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.
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Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: