Job 5:2
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2 Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:9
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9 Do not be quick to anger,
for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.(A)
Proverbs 12:16
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16 Fools show their anger at once,
but the prudent ignore an insult.(A)
Job 18:4
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4 You who tear yourself in your anger—
shall the earth be forsaken because of you
or the rock be removed out of its place?(A)
Romans 2:8
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8 while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury.(A)
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Hosea 7:11
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Futile Reliance on the Nations
11 Ephraim has become like a dove,
silly and without sense;
they call upon Egypt, they go to Assyria.(A)
Psalm 107:17
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17 Some were sick[a] through their sinful ways
and because of their iniquities endured affliction;(A)
Footnotes
- 107.17 Cn: Heb fools
Psalm 92:6
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6 The dullard cannot know;
the stupid cannot understand this:
Psalm 75:4
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4 I say to the boastful, “Do not boast,”
and to the wicked, “Do not lift up your horn;(A)
Psalm 14:1
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Psalm 14
Denunciation of Godlessness
To the leader. Of David.
1 Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt; they do abominable deeds;
there is no one who does good.(A)
1 Samuel 18:8-9
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8 Saul was very angry, for this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; what more can he have but the kingdom?”(A) 9 So Saul eyed David from that day on.
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Genesis 30:1
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30 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”(A)
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2 Timothy 3:6
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6 For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate immature women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,(A)
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