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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And she answered him, No, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Do not do thou this folly. And I, where shall I carry my shame? And as for thee, thou will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from thee.
The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good.
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
But shun foolish and uneducated questions, 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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and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou have done foolishly.
then they shall bring the damsel out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall thou
Do ye thus requite LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.
And it shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of LORD, and because he has wrought folly in Israel.
And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to LORD, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done, but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done very foo
The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good.
Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that a foolish people has blasphemed thy name.
The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
A fool's vexation is instantly known, but a prudent man conceals shame.
Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but [a thing] in the inward part of fools is made known.
A fool despises his father's correction, but he who regards reproof gets prudence.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
The thought of folly is sin. And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, but a fool's vexation is heavier than both.
Keep thy foot when thou go to the house of God, for to draw near to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they know not that they do evil.
who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad, who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish,
because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I did not command them. And I am he who knows, and am witness, says LORD.
But I say to you, that every man who is angry at his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment, and whoever speaks an insult to his brother will be liable to the council, and whoever says, Foolish man, will be liable to
But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?
And he said to them, O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets spoke.
Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.
redeeming 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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And I, where shall I carry my shame? And as for thee, thou will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from thee.
And David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done very foolishly.
The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good.
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
O God, thou know my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from thee.
Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is good will.
But I say to you, that every man who is angry at his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment, and whoever speaks an insult to his brother will be liable to the council, and whoever says, Foolish man, will be liable to
A new commandment I give to you, that ye should love each other, just as I loved you, so that ye also should love each other.