Reference: Fool
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Any person who does not act wisely, that is, does not follow the warnings and requirements of God, which are founded in infinite wisdom. Hence "a fool" is put for a wicked man, an enemy or neglecter of God, Ps 14:1; Pr 19:1. So folly is put for wickedness, 2Sa 13:12-13; Ps 38:5, foolish lusts for wicked lusts, etc. Foolish talking, foolish questions, are vain, empty, unprofitable conversation, 2Ti 2:23.
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"Don't, my brother!" she cried. "Don't humiliate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Don't do this horrible thing! Where could I ever go with my disgrace? And you-you would be like one of the immoral men in Israel! Please, speak to the king, for he won't keep me from you."
The fool says in his heart, "God does not exist." They are corrupt; their actions are revolting. There is no one who does good.
My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.
Better a poor man who walks in integrity than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.
But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.
Hastings
The Heb. language is rich in words which express various kinds of folly. 1. The kes
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but you didn't even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters. You have acted foolishly.
they will bring the woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father's house. You must purge the evil from you.
Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn't He your Father and Creator? Didn't He make you and sustain you?
The one who is caught with the things set apart must be burned, along with everything he has, because he has violated the Lord's covenant and committed an outrage in Israel.' "
David's conscience troubled him after he had taken a census of the troops. He said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in what I've done. Now, Lord, because I've been very foolish, please take away Your servant's guilt."
The fool says in his heart, "God does not exist." They are corrupt; their actions are revolting. There is no one who does good.
Remember this: the enemy has mocked the Lord, and a foolish people has insulted Your name.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
A wicked man's iniquities entrap him; he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.
A fool's displeasure is known at once, but whoever ignores an insult is sensible.
A fool despises his father's instruction, but a person who heeds correction is sensible.
A fool's mouth is his devastation, and his lips are a trap for his life.
A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to people.
A stone is heavy and sand, a burden, but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.
Guard your step when you go to the house of God. Better to draw near in obedience than to offer the sacrifice as fools do, for they are ignorant and do wrong.
who destroys the omens of the false prophets and makes fools of diviners; who confounds the wise and makes their knowledge foolishness;
because they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbors' wives and have spoken a lie in My name, which I did not command them. I am He who knows, and I am a witness." [This is] the Lord's declaration.
But I tell you, everyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, 'Fool!' will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, 'You moron!' will be subject to hellfire.
"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared-whose will they be?'
He said to them, "How unwise and slow you are to believe in your hearts all that the prophets have spoken!
For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.
making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
Watsons
FOOL, FOLLY, or FOOLISHNESS. The term fool is to be understood sometimes according to its plain, literal meaning, as denoting a person void of understanding; but it is often used figuratively, Ps 38:5; 69:5. "The fool," that is, the impious sinner, "hath said in his heart, There is no God," Ps 14:1. "I have sinned: do away the iniquity of thy servant;
for I have done very foolishly," 1Ch 21:8. "Fools make a mock at sin," Pr 14:9. See also the language of Tamar to her brother Amnon: "Do not this folly; for whither shall I cause my shame to go? And as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel," 2Sa 13:13; that is, Thou wilt be accounted a very wicked person. Our Lord seems to have used the term in a sense somewhat peculiar in Mt 5:22: "Whosoever shall say to his brother, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire." But the whole verse shows the meaning to be, that when any one of his professed disciples indulges a temper and disposition of mind contrary to charity, or that peculiar love which the brethren of Christ are bound by his law to have toward each other, Joh 13:34, not only showing anger against another without a cause, but also treating him with contemptuous language, and that with malicious intent, he shall be in danger of eternal destruction.
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Where could I ever go with my disgrace? And you-you would be like one of the immoral men in Israel! Please, speak to the king, for he won't keep me from you."
David said to God, "I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now, because I've been very foolish, please take away Your servant's guilt."
The fool says in his heart, "God does not exist." They are corrupt; their actions are revolting. There is no one who does good.
My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.
God, You know my foolishness, and my guilty acts are not hidden from You.
Fools mock at making restitution, but there is goodwill among the upright.
But I tell you, everyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, 'Fool!' will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, 'You moron!' will be subject to hellfire.
"I give you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another.