8 occurrences

'Foolish Man' in the Bible

And the king made a song of grief for Abner and said, Was the death of Abner to be like the death of a foolish man?

Verse ConceptsCounted As Fools

Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.

Verse ConceptsBabblingSpeech, Power And Significance OfThriftTroubleDestructionValuing KnowledgeStoring Other Things

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. And a foolish man shall be servant to a wise man of heart.

Verse ConceptsTroubleServanthood, In SocietyWindControlling ParentsFruits Of SinServants Of PeopleInheritanceFamiliesFamily Problems

A sharp man does everything with knowledge, but a foolish man makes clear his foolish thoughts.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfForethoughtsGoal SettingValuing Knowledge

The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.

Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toFalse ConfidenceRashnessReverence, And ObedienceFools, Characteristics OfRash Peopleshunning

The lips of the wise keep knowledge, but the heart of the foolish man is not right.

Verse ConceptsLipsIntellectual KnowledgeValuing Knowledge

Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.

Verse ConceptsKings Warned AboutArrogance, Characterizes The WickedEleganceLyingUnfitting Things

A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.

Verse ConceptsFloggingRebukeOne HundredAdvice On Beating PeopleReproving PeopleDiscernmentrebuking

It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.

Verse ConceptsBearsEvil AssociationsMeeting PeopleBereavementFoolsMotherhood

Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.

Verse ConceptsSilenceFoolishnessHow Silence Is WiseFools

Unattainable to a foolish man, are the dictates of wisdom, in the gate, he openeth not his mouth.

Verse ConceptsBusiness At The GatewayPeople Being SilentWisdom And Guidance

Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.

Verse ConceptsFalse WisdomAnsweringFoolsanswers

He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage.

Verse ConceptsPursuing ViolenceCutting Off Hands And Feet

Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord.

Verse ConceptsSlingsJoining ThingsThrowing StonesSlinging StonesThe Honourable Will Be Honoured

Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.

Verse ConceptsProverbsWise Proverbsdrunkards

Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink.

Verse ConceptsChanceHiringWounds

Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop

Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfGrindingBricksGrinding People

If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

Verse ConceptsLawsuitsScoffing

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of FateSpiritual PerceptionDarkness Of Evilfate

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.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of FateUseless EndeavourWise Man Or Foolfate

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!

Verse ConceptsEquality Of FateForgetting PeopleDeath Is UniversalWise Man Or FoolWisdom

The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.

Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

Verse ConceptsVanityThornsUseless EndeavourWeedpot

The heart of the wise man goes in the right direction; but the heart of a foolish man in the wrong.

Verse ConceptsRight SidesThe Work Of The WiseLeft Hand SideFoolsDirectionNatural Disastersvulnerabilitywise

And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.

Verse ConceptsLifestylesAspects Of People Made Known

The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.

Verse ConceptsFools

Yet, a foolish man, multiplieth words, - though no man knoweth that which hath been, and, that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureToo Many Words

The foolish man will no longer be named noble, and they will not say of the false man that he is a man of honour.

Verse ConceptsCounted As Foolsheroes

For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfMind, The HumanMorality, And CreationSin, Nature OfHypocrites, Description OfMischiefBeing MisleadStingy PeopleErrorHypocrisy

Again, I say let no one think me to be foolish; but if otherwise, even as a foolish man bear with me that I may boast a little.

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeoplePaul's BoastingBoasting

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