Proverbs 23:9

Living With Your Neighbor

⁸ The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted. ⁹ Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words. ¹⁰ Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

Foolish Man

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Matthew 7:6

Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

Proverbs 9:7-8

He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name.

Proverbs 26:4-5

Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.

Isaiah 36:21

But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.

Luke 16:14

And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.

John 8:52

The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

John 9:30-34

The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.

John 9:40

These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?

John 10:20

And a number of them said, He has an evil spirit and is out of his mind; why do you give ear to him?

Acts 13:45-46

But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching.

Acts 17:18

And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.

Acts 17:32

Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

Acts 28:25-28

And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

1 Corinthians 1:21-24

For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

1 Corinthians 4:10-13

We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.