11 All the people who were at the city gate, including the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah,(A) who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and your name well known in Bethlehem.

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Wisdom is inaccessible to[a] a fool;(A)
he does not open his mouth at the city gate.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 24:7 Lit is too high for

16 These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another; make true and sound decisions within your city gates.

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