11 occurrences in 28 translations

'As a Fool' in the Bible

You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.

And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

With the pure, you show yourself pure, but with the crooked, you appear as a fool.

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.

I was stupid and didn’t understand;I was an unthinking animal toward You.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool."

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.

What I am now saying, I do not say by the Lord's command, but as a fool in his folly might, in this reckless boasting.

To my shame, I must say that we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast aboutI am speaking as a foolI also dare to boast about.

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