57 Bible Verses about Fools

they will make no progress; for their foolishness will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

Dreams come with many efforts, trials and concerns. Fools speak with too many words.

A prudent man conceals knowledge. The heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge properly. The mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

A fool (stupid person) does not like understanding when revealing his thoughts.

You are witnesses of these things.

We are witnesses of these things. The Holy Spirit, which God gave to those who obey him, also witnessed.

Those who came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem saw him. They are his witnesses to the people.

We did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

They received testimony from those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning. Ministers of God's word delivered it to us.

But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'

Be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise.

The Lord said: You Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter. Yet your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. You foolish ones. Did he that made the outside also make the inside?

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

Fools suffered because of their disobedience and because of their crimes.

Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the back of fools.

The great God who formed all things rewards the fool as well as the sinner with wages.

Do not be quick in your spirit (mind) (figurative heart) to be angry. Anger rests in the bosom of fools.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool. He who walks wisely will be delivered.

A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

A foolish son is a disgrace to his father. A contentious wife is like drips from a leaky roof.

Though you grind a fool in mortar his foolishness will not depart from him.

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

The wise in heart will accept the law but a babbling fool will fall.

Wise men preserve knowledge. The mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

They are very stupid and foolish. They teach vanity to a tree. Their idol is wood!

Claiming to be wise, they became fools. They 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.

A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.

Every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor does not become a fool.

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

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes. He who listens to counsel is wise.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who accepts discipline is prudent.

Respect for Jehovah (YHWH) is the beginning of knowledge (truth) (understanding) (wisdom). Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive that he does not have lips of knowledge.

Forsake the foolish, and live. Travel in the way of understanding.

([Psalm of David]) The fool says in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah) (Psalm 10:4). They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. No one does good things.

([Psalm of David]) The fool has said in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah)*. They are corrupt and have done abominable (detestable) iniquity. There are none who do good. (*Possible deliberate scribal change from YHWH to Elohim)

A fool also is full of words. A man cannot predict what will be and what will be after him. Who can tell him?

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man walks in darkness. Yet I saw that the same event happens to them all.

Do not be quick in your spirit (mind) (figurative heart) to be angry. Anger rests in the bosom of fools.

They say that we would be fools to fold our hands and let ourselves starve to death.

Guard your step when you go to the house of God. It is better to go there and listen than to bring the sacrifices fools bring. Fools are not aware that they do evil.

Do not be late in paying a vow you make to God. He takes no delight in fools. Pay what you vow!

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. The foolish took no oil with their lamps. The wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. read more.
They all slept, because the bridegroom delayed his arrival. There was a shout at midnight. 'Here is the bridegroom! Come meet him.' The virgins awoke and trimmed their lamps. All the foolish virgins said to the wise: 'Give us your oil, for our lamps are going out.' But the wise answered: 'There will not be enough for both of us. Go to the dealers and buy oil for yourself.' While they were away, the bridegroom came. They that were ready went in with him to the marriage feast and the door was shut. Later the other virgins came, saying: 'Lord, Lord, open to us.' But he told them: 'I do not know you.'

Truly a fool hides hatred with lying lips, and speaks slander.

A wise man is cautious and departs from evil. But the fool is arrogant and careless.

Truly a fool hides hatred with lying lips, and speaks slander.

Truly a fool hides hatred with lying lips, and speaks slander.

It is like sport to a fool to do mischief. A man of understanding has wisdom.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool. He who walks wisely will be delivered.

Desire accomplished is sweetness to life. It is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

The one who walks with wise men will be wise. A companion of fools will be destroyed.

A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who accepts discipline is prudent.

Fools mock at sin, but among the righteous there is good will.

It is an honor for a man to cease from discord. Only fools start quarrels.

A fool's lips want to argue. His mouth calls for blows.

My people are fools. They do not know me. They are stupid people. They do not understand. They are experts in doing wrong, and they do not know how to do good.

It is an honor for a man to cease from discord. Only fools start quarrels.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way. The folly of fools is deception.

A fool's lips want to argue. His mouth calls for blows.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge properly. The mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

A fool (stupid person) does not like understanding when revealing his thoughts.

A fool's mouth is his ruin. His lips are the snares of his life.

Fools mock at sin, but among the righteous there is good will.

How long, you simple (stupid) (foolish) ones, will you love simplicity (foolishness) (stupidity)? The scoffers delight in scoffing. Fools hate knowledge!

Wise people will inherit glory. But disgrace is the legacy of stupid (foolish) people.

But he paid no attention to the opinion of the elders. He went to the young men who were his advisors:

Every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

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

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Jehovah. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Arise, O God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man treats you with contempt all day.

([Psalm of David]) The fool has said in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah)*. They are corrupt and have done abominable (detestable) iniquity. There are none who do good. (*Possible deliberate scribal change from YHWH to Elohim)

([Psalm of David]) The fool says in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah) (Psalm 10:4). They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. No one does good things.

But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'

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

The arrogant shall not stand before your eyes. You hate all who practice sin.

([Psalm of David]) The fool has said in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah)*. They are corrupt and have done abominable (detestable) iniquity. There are none who do good. (*Possible deliberate scribal change from YHWH to Elohim)

Respect for Jehovah (YHWH) is the beginning of knowledge (truth) (understanding) (wisdom). Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.