Bible Verses About Fool: General references

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

¶ A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

To call passengers who go right on their ways:

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

¶ In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

¶ Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

¶ Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

¶ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

¶ Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

¶ A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

¶ Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

¶ Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

¶ A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

¶ A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

¶ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

¶ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

¶ He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.