'Fool' in the Bible
and the king lamenteth for Abner, and saith: -- 'As the death of a fool doth Abner die?
To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.
From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.
To the Overseer. -- 'On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.
Arise, O God, plead Thy plea, Remember Thy reproach from a fool all the day.
A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; --
He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,
The wise in heart accepteth commands, And a talkative fool kicketh.
Whoso is winking the eye giveth grief, And a talkative fool kicketh.
The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool is near ruin.
Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.
To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.
Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant is the fool to the wise of heart.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel is wise.
The fool -- in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.
Every prudent one dealeth with knowledge, And a fool spreadeth out folly.
In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.
The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.
A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.
Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.
Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.
The meeting of a bereaved bear by a man, And -- not a fool in his folly.
Why is this -- a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?
Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.
The face of the intelligent is to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.
Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!
A fool delighteth not in understanding, But -- in uncovering his heart.
The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.
The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
Better is the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse in his lips, who is a fool.
Luxury is not comely for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule among princes.
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
Wisdom is high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour is not comely for a fool.
Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him -- even thou.
Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.
He is cutting off feet, he is drinking injury, Who is sending things by the hand of a fool.
As one who is binding a stone in a sling, So is he who is giving honour to a fool.
Great is the Former of all, And He is rewarding a fool, And is rewarding transgressors.
As a dog hath returned to its vomit, A fool is repeating his folly.
Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!
A stone is heavy, and the sand is heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both.
Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.
A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.
Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.
For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,
The wise! -- his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;
and I said in my heart, 'As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this is vanity:
That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which is already, in the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!
For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.
For what advantage is to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?
For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So is the laughter of a fool, even this is vanity.
Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?
The heart of the wise is at his right hand, And the heart of a fool at his left.
And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, 'He is a fool.'
He hath set the fool in many high places, And the rich in a low place do sit.
Words of the mouth of the wise are gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up.
And the fool multiplieth words: 'Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'
A fool is no more called 'noble,' And to a miser it is not said, 'rich;'
For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack.
A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, Is one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.
Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool is the prophet, Mad is the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great is the hatred.