256 verses contain “fool” (in the KJV: 246, in the BSB: 179) — showing 201–256
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Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked:
We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour:
For whilst they were yet mourning and making lamentation at the graves of the dead, they added another foolish device, and pursued them as fugitives, whom they had intreated to be gone.
Consult not with a fool; for he cannot keep counsel.
But foolish men shall not attain unto her, and sinners shall not see her.
He was not pacified toward the old giants, who fell away in the strength of their foolishness.
A fool travaileth with a word, as a woman in labour of a child.
There is a wickedness, and the same an abomination; and there is a fool wanting in wisdom.
A wise man will hold his tongue till he see opportunity: but a babbler and a fool will regard no time.
A wise man by his words maketh him beloved: but the graces of fools shall be poured out.
The gift of a fool shall do thee no good when thou hast it; neither yet of the envious for his necessity: for he looketh to receive many things for one.
The fool saith, I have no friends, I have no thank for all my good deeds, and they that eat my bread speak evil of me.
A wise sentence shall be rejected when it cometh out of a fool’s mouth; for he will not speak it in due season.
The inner parts of a fool are like a broken vessel, and he will hold no knowledge as long as he liveth.
The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: but grace shall be found in the lips of the wise.
As is a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as talk without sense.
Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.
The heart of fools is in their mouth: but the mouth of the wise is in their heart.
He that telleth a tale to a fool speaketh to one in a slumber: when he hath told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?
Seven days do men mourn for him that is dead; but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of his life.
What is heavier than lead? and what is the name thereof, but a fool?
Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand against any fear.
The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.
The discourse of a godly man is always with wisdom; but a fool changeth as the moon.
It is a stumblingblock unto them that sacrifice unto it, and every fool shall be taken therewith.
Drunkenness increaseth the rage of a fool till he offend: it diminisheth strength, and maketh wounds.
The hopes of a man void of understanding are vain and false: and dreams lift up fools.
A man that hideth his foolishness is better than a man that hideth his wisdom.
Thus rested Solomon with his fathers, and of his seed he left behind him Roboam, even the foolishness of the people, and one that had no understanding, who turned away the people through his counsel. There was also Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, and shewed Ephraim the way of sin:
They that sit upon the mountain of Samaria, and they that dwell among the Philistines, and that foolish people that dwell in Sichem.
But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and perished through their own foolishness.
So he standing in the midst of them said, Are ye such fools, ye sons of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth ye have condemned a daughter of Israel?