57 Bible Verses about Fools

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

For a dream comes through much business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may express itself.

And you are witnesses of these things.

And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to them that obey him.

And he was seen many days of them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

For we have not followed cunningly devised myths, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

But God said unto him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you: then whose shall those things be, which you have prepared?

See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise,

And the Lord said unto him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. You fools, did not he that made that which is outside make that which is within also?

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Judgments are prepared for scoffers and stripes for the back of fools.

The great God that formed all things gives the fool his hire, and the transgressor his wages.

Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whosoever walks wisely, he shall be delivered.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

Though you should crush a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.

The wise in heart will heed commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

As he that binds a stone in a sling, so is he that gives honor to a fool.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkens unto counsel is wise.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

A fool despises his father's instruction: but he that regards reproof is prudent.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive not in him the lips of knowledge.

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] 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.

[To the Chief Musician upon mahalath. A maschil. A Song of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one fate happens to them all.

Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

When you vow a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed.

And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. read more.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go you rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.

He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

It is as sport to a fool to do wrong: but a man of understanding has wisdom.

He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whosoever walks wisely, he shall be delivered.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

A fool despises his father's instruction: but he that regards reproof is prudent.

Fools make a mockery of sin: but among the righteous there is favor.

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for blows.

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have no knowledge.

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for blows.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may express itself.

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Fools make a mockery of sin: but among the righteous there is favor.

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the recompense of fools.

But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and who stood before him:

And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:

O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be of an understanding heart.

Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.

[To the Chief Musician upon mahalath. A maschil. A Song of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] 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.

But God said unto him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you: then whose shall those things be, which you have prepared?

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity.

[To the Chief Musician upon mahalath. A maschil. A Song of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,