117 verses contain “foolish” (in the KJV: 107, in the BSB: 61) — showing 101–117
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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.
Make not
thyself an
underling to a
foolish man; neither accept the person of the mighty.
But foolish men shall not attain unto her, and sinners shall not see her.
He that wanteth understanding will think upon vain things: and a
foolish man
erring imagineth
follies.
A
foolish man’s foot is soon in his neighbour’s house: but a man of experience is
ashamed of him.
An evilnurtured man is the dishonour of his father that
begat him: and a
foolish daughter is born to his loss.
Be faithful to thy neighbour in his poverty, that thou mayest
rejoice in his prosperity:
abide stedfast unto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest be heir with him in his
heritage: for a mean estate is not always to be
contemned: nor the rich that is
foolish to be had in admiration.
The
sinner shall be left in his
foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.
The heart of the
foolish is like a cartwheel; and his thoughts are like a rolling
axletree.
A man that hideth his
foolishness is better than a man that hideth his wisdom.
Be not
ashamed to inform the unwise and
foolish, and the extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: thus shalt thou be truly learned, and approved of all men living.
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.
Here then will we begin the story: only adding thus much to that which hath been said, that it is a
foolish thing to make a long
prologue, and to be short in the story itself.
Howbeit having
gotten opportunity to further his
foolish enterprize, and being called into counsel by
Demetrius, and asked how the Jews stood affected, and what they intended, he answered
thereunto: