Fool

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Bible verses about “Fool”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Psalms 5:5The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
• Psalms 14:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
• Psalms 53:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
• Psalms 74:18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
• Psalms 74:19O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
• Psalms 74:20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
• Psalms 74:21O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
• Psalms 74:22Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
• Psalms 107:17Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
• Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
• Proverbs 3:35The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
• Proverbs 9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
• Proverbs 9:7He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
• Proverbs 9:8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
• Proverbs 9:13A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
• Proverbs 9:14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
• Proverbs 9:15To call passengers who go right on their ways:
• Proverbs 9:16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
• Proverbs 9:17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
• Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
• Proverbs 10:8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
• Proverbs 10:10He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
• Proverbs 10:13In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
• Proverbs 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
• Proverbs 10:18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
• Proverbs 10:23It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
• Proverbs 14:1Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
• Proverbs 14:7Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
• Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
• Proverbs 14:9Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
• Proverbs 14:15The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
• Proverbs 15:7The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
• Proverbs 15:20A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
• Proverbs 15:21Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
• Proverbs 17:24Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
• Proverbs 17:25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
• Proverbs 18:2A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
• Proverbs 18:6A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
• Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.