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You didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing.
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and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.
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Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?
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“You have done a foolish thing,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.
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Now David had been told, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed, “Lord, turn Ahithophel’s counsel into foolishness.”
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David was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, Lord, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.”
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Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.”
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For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.”
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He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
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For all can see that the wise die, that the foolish and the senseless also perish, leaving their wealth to others.
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Remember how the enemy has mocked you, Lord, how foolish people have reviled your name.
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You who are simple, gain prudence; you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.
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Proverbs of Solomon
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
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The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.
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A quick-tempered person does foolish things, and the one who devises evil schemes is hated.
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A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
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A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.
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A foolish child is a father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.
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And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.
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Advancement Is Meaningless
Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.
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I thought, “These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the Lord, the requirements of their God.
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Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:
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They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.
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This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
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Then the Lord said to me, “Take again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.