Proverbs 24:7 (BSB)

Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:7

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:7-9: Here is the description, 1. Of a weak man: Wisdom is too high for him; he thinks it so, and therefore, despairing to attain it, he will take no pains in the pursuit of it, but sit down content without it. And really it is so; he has not capacity for it, and therefore the advantages he has for getting it are all in vain to him.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:7: He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person To do evil is natural to men, all are prone to it; being conceived and born in sin, and, from the womb, more or less commit it: but for a man to sit down and contrive evil, as some men are inventors of evil things; contrive new sins, or at least new methods...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 24:7: (Compare Pro 14:16). in the gate--(Compare Pro 22:22).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 24:7: Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. (a) In the place where wisdom should be shown.