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Proverbs 14:6
A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.
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Psalms 10:5
His ways are always secure; your lofty judgments have no effect on him; he scoffs at all his adversaries.
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1 Corinthians 2 14
But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.
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Psalms 92:5-6
How magnificent are your works, LORD, how profound your thoughts!A stupid person does not know, a fool does not understand this:
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Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive, but a fool’s eyes roam to the ends of the earth.
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Job 29:7-25
When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the town square,the young men saw me and withdrew, while older men stood to their feet.City officials stopped talking and covered their mouths with their hands.The noblemen’s voices were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.When they heard me, they blessed me, and when they saw me, they spoke well of me.For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.The dying blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice.I clothed myself in righteousness, and it enveloped me; my just decisions were 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 examined the case of the stranger.I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.So I thought,“ I will die in my own nest and multiply my days as the sand.My roots will have access to water, and the dew will rest on my branches all night.My whole being will be refreshed within me, and my bow will be renewed in my hand.”Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my advice.After a word from me they did not speak again; my speech settled on them like dew.They waited for me as for the rain and opened their mouths as for spring showers.If I smiled at them, they couldn’t believe it; they were thrilled at the light of my countenance.I directed their course and presided as chief. I lived as a king among his troops, like one who comforts those who mourn.
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Amos 5:10
They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate, and they despise the one who speaks with integrity.
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Amos 5:12
For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.
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Amos 5:15
Hate evil and love good; establish justice at the city gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
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Proverbs 22:22
Don’t rob a poor person because he is poor, and don’t crush the oppressed at the city gate,
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Proverbs 15:24
For the prudent the path of life leads upward, so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.
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Job 5:4
His children are far from safety. They are crushed at the city gate, with no one to rescue them.
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Proverbs 31:8-9
Speak up for those who have no voice, for the justice of all who are dispossessed.Speak up, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the oppressed and needy.
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Isaiah 29:21
those who, with their speech, accuse a person of wrongdoing, who set a trap for the one mediating at the city gate and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.
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Job 31:21
if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child when I saw that I had support in the city gate,
