'Fool' in the Bible

Balaam answered the donkey, “You made me look like a fool. If I had a sword in my hand, I’d kill you now!”

Now consider carefully what you must do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him!”

Saul responded, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David, I will never harm you again because today you considered my life precious. I have been a fool! I’ve committed a grave error.”

and the king sang a lament for Abner:Should Abner die as a fool dies?

For anger kills a fool,and jealousy slays the gullible.

I have seen a fool taking root,but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.

For the choir director. Davidic.The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.”They are corrupt; they do vile deeds.There is no one who does good.

For the choir director: on Mahalath. A Davidic Maskil.The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.”They are corrupt, and they do vile deeds.There is no one who does good.

I was stupid and didn’t understand;I was an unthinking animal toward You.

A stupid person does not know,a fool does not understand this:

The wise store up knowledge,but the mouth of the fool hastens destruction.

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

As shameful conduct is pleasure for a fool,so wisdom is for a man of understanding.

The one who brings ruin on his householdwill inherit the wind,and a fool will be a slaveto someone whose heart is wise.

Every sensible person acts knowledgeably,but a fool displays his stupidity.

The proud speech of a fool brings a rod of discipline,but the lips of the wise protect them.

A wise man is cautious and turns from evil,but a fool is easily angered and is careless.

A fool despises his father’s discipline,but a person who accepts correction is sensible.

A rebuke cuts into a perceptive personmore than a hundred lashes into a fool.

Better for a man to meet a bear robbed of her cubsthan a fool in his foolishness.

Why does a fool have money in his handwith no intention of buying wisdom?

A man fathers a fool to his own sorrow;the father of a fool has no joy.

Even a fool is considered wise when he keeps silent,discerning when he seals his lips. >

A fool does not delight in understanding,but only wants to show off his opinions.

Better a poor man who lives with integritythan someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.

Luxury is not appropriate for a fool—how much less for a slave to rule over princes!

It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute,but any fool can get himself into a quarrel.

Don’t speak to a fool,for he will despise the insight of your words.

Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool;he does not open his mouth at the gate.

Like snow in summer and rain at harvest,honor is inappropriate for a fool.

Don’t answer a fool according to his foolishnessor you’ll be like him yourself.

Answer a fool according to his foolishnessor he’ll become wise in his own eyes.

A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like lame legs that hang limp.

Giving honor to a foolis like binding a stone in a sling.

A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like a stick with thorns,brandished by the hand of a drunkard.

The one who hires a fool or who hires those passing byis like an archer who wounds everyone.

As a dog returns to its vomit,so a fool repeats his foolishness.

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes?There is more hope for a fool than for him.

A stone is heavy and sand, a burden,but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.

Though you grind a foolin a mortar with a pestle along with grain,you will not separate his foolishness from him.

The one who trusts in himself is a fool,but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.

If a wise man goes to court with a fool,there will be ranting and raving but no resolution.

A fool gives full vent to his anger,but a wise man holds it in check.

Do you see a man who speaks too soon?There is more hope for a fool than for him.

a servant when he becomes king,a fool when he is stuffed with food,

The wise man has eyes in his head,but the fool walks in darkness.Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.

So I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will also happen to me. Why then have I been overly wise?” And I said to myself that this is also futile.

For, just like the fool, there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man, since in the days to come both will be forgotten. How is it that the wise man dies just like the fool?

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will take over all my work that I labored at skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

The fool folds his armsand consumes his own flesh.

What advantage then does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage is there for the poor person who knows how to conduct himself before others?

for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot,so is the laughter of the fool.This too is futile.

Surely, the practice of extortion turns a wise person into a fool,and a bribe destroys the mind.

Even when the fool walks along the road, his heart lacks sense,and he shows everyone he is a fool.

The fool is appointed to great heights,but the rich remain in lowly positions.

The words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious,but the lips of a fool consume him.

Yet the fool multiplies words.No one knows what will happen,and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?

A fool will no longer be called a noble,nor a scoundrel said to be important.

For a fool speaks foolishnessand his mind plots iniquity.He lives in a godless wayand speaks falsely about the Lord.He leaves the hungry emptyand deprives the thirsty of drink.

A road will be there and a way;it will be called the Holy Way.The unclean will not travel on it,but it will be for the one who walks the path.Even the fool will not go astray.

Then I thought:They are just the poor;they have played the fool.For they don’t understand the way of the Lord,the justice of their God.

He who makes a fortune unjustlyis like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.In the middle of his dayshis riches will abandon him,so in the end he will be a fool.

The days of punishment have come;the days of retribution have come.Let Israel recognize it!The prophet is a fool,and the inspired man is insane,because of the magnitudeof your guilt and hostility.

Surely a son considers his father a fool,a daughter opposes her mother,and a daughter-in-law is against her mother-in-law;a man’s enemies are the men of his own household.

But I tell you, everyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Fool!’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, ‘You moron!’ will be subject to hellfire.

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’

I repeat: No one should consider me a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool, so I too may boast a little.

For if I want to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,

I have become a fool; you forced it on me. I should have been endorsed by you, since I am not in any way inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.