57 Bible Verses about Fools

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

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

A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may reveal itself.

And ye are witnesses of these things.

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

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

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.

Even as they delivered them to us, who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and ministers of the word;

But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

And the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, 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 scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

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

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walketh 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 dropping.

Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

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

The wise in heart will receive 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 brutish and foolish: the stock 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 animals.

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth 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 heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:

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

As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honor to a fool.

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

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools:

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth 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 thou perceivest 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 hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth 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 walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

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

The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

Keep thy foot when thou goest 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 thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast 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 cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to 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 ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they were going 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 to you, I know you not.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walketh 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 walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Fools make a mock at 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 calleth for strokes.

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but 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 calleth for strokes.

The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may reveal itself.

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

Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favor.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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

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

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

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

Remember this, the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

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

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth 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: