9 Bible Verses about Wise Man Or Fool

And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;

I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.