A scorner seeketh wisdom, and {findeth it} not: but knowledge {is} easy unto him that understandeth.

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments {are} far above out of his sight: {as for} all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

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.

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.

The way of life {is} above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

Wisdom {is} before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool {are} in the ends of the earth.

When I went out to the gate through the city, {when} I prepared my seat in the street!

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

O LORD, how great are thy works! {and} thy thoughts are very deep.

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

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}. {a bribe: or, a ransom}

Rob not the poor, because he {is} poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. {such...: Heb. the sons of destruction}

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.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither {is there} any to deliver {them}.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. {Peter: this name signifies a rock}

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all {things}.

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

Thy righteousness also, O God, {is} very high, who hast done great things: O God, who {is} like unto thee!

And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. {such...: Heb. the sons of destruction}