Then Tamar said to him, "No, my brother! Do not force me, for such a thing has not been done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing! As for me, where should I take my disgrace? You will be as one of the fools in Israel. So please, speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you."

[The] fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good.

My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness.

Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse {in his speech} and is a fool.

But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, [because you] know that they produce quarrels.

And [why] did you not give me opportunity to kiss my grandsons and my daughters [goodbye]? Now you have behaved foolishly [by] doing [this].

and [then] they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel {by playing the harlot} [in] the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

[Like] this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and {unwise} people? [Has] he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you.

The one caught with the devoted things will be burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because {he transgressed the covenant} of Yahweh, and because he did a disgraceful thing in Israel." '"

The heart of David struck him after he had counted the people, and David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done! So then, O Yahweh, please forgive the guilt of your servant because I have acted very foolishly."

[The] fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good.

O Yahweh, remember this: [the] enemy taunts, and foolish people treat your name with contempt.

Fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge; wisdom and instruction, fools despise.

His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer, and in the vanity of his sin he shall be caught.

A woman of foolishness is loud, simple, and does not know {it}.

As for a fool, {on that very day} he makes his anger known, but he who ignores an insult [is] prudent.

In the heart of him who has understanding, wisdom rests, but [even] in the midst of fools it becomes known.

A fool will despise the instruction of his father, but he who guards reproof is prudent.

The mouth of a fool [is] ruin to him, and his lips [are] a snare to his soul.

Devising folly [is] a sin, and an abomination to humankind [is] a scoffer.

Heavy [is] a stone and weighty [is] sand, but [the] provocation of a fool [is] heavier than both of them.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; draw near to listen [rather] than to offer a sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.

who frustrates [the] signs of oracle priests and makes a fool of diviners, who drives [the] wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,

because they have done a disgraceful thing in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors, and they have spoken words in my name, lies that I have not commanded them, and I [am] he who knows, and [I am] a witness,' {declares} Yahweh."

But I say to you that everyone who is angry at his brother will be subject to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, 'Stupid fool!' will be subject to the council, and whoever says, 'Obstinate fool!' will be subject to fiery hell.

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

And he said to them, "O foolish and slow in heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

making the most of the time because the days are evil.

As for me, where should I take my disgrace? You will be as one of the fools in Israel. So please, speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you."

Then David said to God, "I have sinned severely [in] that I have done this thing. But now, please forgive the sin of your servant, for I have been very foolish."

[The] fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good.

My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness.

O God, {you yourself know} my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.

Fools mock [the] guilt offering, but among the upright, it is favorable.

But I say to you that everyone who is angry at his brother will be subject to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, 'Stupid fool!' will be subject to the council, and whoever says, 'Obstinate fool!' will be subject to fiery hell.

"A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another--just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.