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Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
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Psalms 10:5
His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
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1 Corinthians 2 14
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.
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Psalms 92:5-6
How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep!The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:
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Proverbs 17:24
The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
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Job 29:7-25
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,because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.The blessing of him who was about 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 justice was like a robe and a turban.I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.Then I thought,‘ I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’“ Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down.I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.
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Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
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Amos 5:12
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.
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Amos 5:15
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.
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Proverbs 22:22
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,
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Proverbs 15:24
The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.
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Job 5:4
His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
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Proverbs 31:8-9
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.
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Isaiah 29:21
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.
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Job 31:21
if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,