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Proverbs 26
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. ...

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  1. And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly.
  2. And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned.
  3. And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you.”
  4. Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
  5. They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
  6. And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
  7. Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake.”
  8. And the king lamented for Abner, saying, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
  9. As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
  10. And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
  11. The Lord's Judgment of David's Sin

    But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
  12. And David said to God, “I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
  13. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”
  14. But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
  15. Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
  16. I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
  17. He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
  18. The Fool Says, There Is No God

    To the choirmaster. Of David.

    The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.
  19. My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,
  20. Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool!
  21. For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.
  22. This is the path of those who have foolish confidence; yet after them people approve of their boasts. Selah
  23. There Is None Who Does Good

    To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.

    The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
  24. Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.
  25. Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
  26. The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:
  27. Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
  28. Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
  29. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
  30. “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
  31. For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them;
  32. The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.
  33. O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.
  34. The Proverbs of Solomon

    The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
  35. The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
  36. Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, and a babbling fool will come to ruin.
  37. The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.
  38. The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.
  39. The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
  40. Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
  41. Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
  42. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
  43. The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.
  44. A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.
  45. Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.
  46. A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.
  47. Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
  48. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.
  49. Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
  50. The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.
  51. Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance.
  52. One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.
  53. A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.
  54. The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly.
  55. Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.
  56. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
  57. A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
  58. The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools.
  59. The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
  60. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
  61. Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.
  62. Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince.
  63. A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
  64. Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly.
  65. Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?
  66. He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.
  67. The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
  68. A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
  69. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
  70. A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
  71. A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.
  72. A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
  73. Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.
  74. It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.
  75. A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
  76. Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and beating for the backs of fools.
  77. It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
  78. Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
  79. Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.
  80. Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
  81. Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
  82. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.
  83. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.
  84. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
  85. Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.
  86. Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
  87. Like one who binds the stone in the sling is one who gives honor to a fool.
  88. Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
  89. Like an archer who wounds everyone is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.
  90. Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
  91. Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
  92. A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
  93. Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
  94. Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
  95. If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.
  96. A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
  97. Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
  98. a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;
  99. If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.
  100. The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.
  101. Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
  102. For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!
  103. and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
  104. The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.
  105. Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.
  106. Fear God

    Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.
  107. For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
  108. When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
  109. For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?
  110. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
  111. It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.
  112. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.
  113. Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
  114. Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
  115. I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.
  116. The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.
  117. A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left.
  118. Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
  119. The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.
  120. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is evil madness.
  121. A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?
  122. The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
  123. The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?
  124. The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of her tribes have made Egypt stagger.
  125. The fool will no more be called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be honorable.
  126. For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
  127. And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.
  128. who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,
  129. “For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”
  130. “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
  131. They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!
  132. Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
  133. A sword against the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, that they may be destroyed!
  134. Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
  135. The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
  136. Then the Lord said to me, “Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
  137. But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
  138. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
  139. You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
  140. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
  141. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,
  142. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
  143. coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
  144. You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?
  145. The Parable of the Rich Fool

    Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
  146. But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
  147. And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
  148. I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
  149. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
  150. Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
  151. foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
  152. an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
  153. But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”
  154. Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
  155. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
  156. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;
  157. Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
  158. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
  159. You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
  160. Paul and the False Apostles

    I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!
  161. Paul's Sufferings as an Apostle

    I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
  162. What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would but as a fool.
  163. For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves!
  164. To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.
  165. though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.
  166. Concern for the Corinthian Church

    I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
  167. By Faith, or by Works of the Law?

    O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.
  168. Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
  169. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
  170. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
  171. Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.
  172. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
  173. But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
  174. Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
  175. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

23 topical index results for “fool”

NABAL : (Husband of Abigail; Hebrew means "fool.")
RACA : (Roughly translated "fool" but means "You good-for-nothing moron!")) (Matthew 5:22)
JESUS, THE CHRIST » PARABLES OF » The rich fool (Luke 12:16-21)
SIN » MISCELLANY OF MINOR SUB-TOPICS » Fools mock at (Proverbs 14:9)
SPEAKING » FOLLY IN » See FOOL
WICKED (PEOPLE) » Compared with » Fools building upon sand (Matthew 7:26)

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