Bible Verses About Fools
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He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Every verse, in Bible order
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
6A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
7A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
10The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
11As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?