[As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know [it]: the prophet [is] a fool, the spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
But God said unto him, [Thou] fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
[Thou] fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but [now] I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or [that] he heareth of me.
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.
Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother.
Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction.
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
In the mouth of the foolish [is] a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not [in him] the lips of knowledge.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish [doeth] not so.
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
[There is] treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
[If] a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, [there is] no rest.
Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
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.
Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
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:
And five of them were wise, and five [were] foolish.
They that [were] foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by [them that are] no people, [and] by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
And [one] told David, saying, Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
The crown of the wise [is] their riches: [but] the foolishness of fools [is] folly.
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
The thought of foolishness [is] sin: and the scorner [is] an abomination to men.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness:
The beginning of the words of his mouth [is] foolishness: and the end of his talk [is] mischievous madness.
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
[They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but [it is] abomination to fools to depart from evil.
He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
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.
The crown of the wise [is] their riches: [but] the foolishness of fools [is] folly.
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but [that which is] in the midst of fools is made known.
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