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For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.
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Warnings Against Folly
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
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Invitations of Wisdom and Folly
Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars.
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Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing.
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The prudent keep their knowledge to themselves, but a fool’s heart blurts out folly.
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All who are prudent act with knowledge, but fools expose their folly.
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The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception.
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The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
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The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly.
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Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
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The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.
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The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
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Folly brings joy to one who has no sense, but whoever has understanding keeps a straight course.
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Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent, but folly brings punishment to fools.
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Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly.
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To answer before listening— that is folly and shame.
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A person’s own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the Lord.
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Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.
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The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.
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Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.
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Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
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As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.
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Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.
