Bible Verses About Fool: General references

Forsake your way, ye foolish, and ye shall liue: and walke in the way of vnderstanding.

He that reproueth a scorner, purchaseth to himselfe shame: and he that rebuketh the wicked, getteth himselfe a blot.

Rebuke not a scorner, least he hate thee: but rebuke a wise man, and he will loue thee.

A foolish woman is troublesome: she is ignorant, and knoweth nothing.

But she sitteth at the doore of her house on a seate in the hie places of the citie,

To call them that passe by the way, that go right on their way, saying,

Who so is simple, let him come hither, and to him that is destitute of wisedome, shee sayth also,

Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.

In the lippes of him that hath vnderstanding wisdome is founde, and a rod shalbe for the backe of him that is destitute of wisedome.

Wise men lay vp knowledge: but ye mouth of the foole is a present destruction.

Depart from the foolish man, when thou perceiuest not in him the lippes of knowledge.

The wisdome of ye prudent is to vnderstand his way: but the foolishnes of the fooles is deceite.

The foole maketh a mocke of sinne: but among the righteous there is fauour.

A wise sonne reioyceth the father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Foolishnes is ioy to him that is destitute of vnderstanding: but a man of vnderstanding walketh vprightly.

Wisdome is in the face of him that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of a foole are in the corners of the world.

A foolish sonne is a griefe vnto his father, and a heauines to her that bare him.

A fooles lips come with strife, and his mouth calleth for stripes.

A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lips are a snare for his soule.

Vnto the horse belongeth a whip, to the asse a bridle, and a rod to the fooles backe.

Answer not a foole according to his foolishnes, least thou also be like him.

Answere a foole according to his foolishnes, least he be wise in his owne conceite.

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a foole, is as he that cutteth off the feete, and drinketh iniquitie.

As they that lift vp the legs of the lame, so is a parable in a fooles mouth.

As the closing vp of a precious stone in an heape of stones, so is he that giueth glory to a foole.