General scriptures concerning
- Psalms 5:5
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
- Psalms 14:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The 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 53:1
To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The 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 74:18–22
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. …
- Psalms 107:17
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
- Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 3:35
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
- Proverbs 9:6–8
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.
- Proverbs 9:13–17
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: …
- Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
- Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
- Proverbs 10:10
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
- Proverbs 10:13
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.
- Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
- Proverbs 10:18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
- Proverbs 10:23
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
- Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
- Proverbs 14:7–9
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.
- Proverbs 14:15
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
- Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
- Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
- Proverbs 15:21
Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
- Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
- Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
- Proverbs 18:2
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
- Proverbs 18:6
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
- Proverbs 18:7
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
- Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- Proverbs 20:3
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
- Proverbs 21:20
There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
- Proverbs 26:3–12
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. …
- Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
- Proverbs 29:11
A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
- Ecclesiastes 4:5
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
- Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
- Ecclesiastes 10:11–15
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. …
- Matthew 7:26
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:
- Matthew 7:27
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
- Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.