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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
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He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
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O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
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Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
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A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
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The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
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The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
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He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
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Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
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He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
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The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
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It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
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He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
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The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
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A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
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A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
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Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
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The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
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He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
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Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
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In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
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Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
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The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
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Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
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A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
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He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
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The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
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Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
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The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
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A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
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The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
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The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
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A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
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Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
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Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
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A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
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Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
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Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
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He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
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Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
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A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
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A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
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A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
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A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
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Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
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The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.
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Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
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It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
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There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
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The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
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As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
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A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
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Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
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Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
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He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
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The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
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As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
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As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools.
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The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
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As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
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Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
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A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
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Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
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He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
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If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
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A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
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Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
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For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
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If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
