'Folly' in the Bible

{So then}, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for {I will certainly accept his prayer}, so that it will not be done with you [according to your] folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has]."

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, because he will speak peace to his people, even his faithful [ones], but let them not return to folly.

He shall die {for lack of} discipline, and in the greatness of his folly he shall be lost.

A clever person conceals knowledge, but the heart of a fool announces folly.

Anyone who is clever will act with intelligence, but the fool will display folly.

The wisdom of the clever is understanding his ways, but the folly of fools is deceit.

The simple are adorned [with] folly, but the clever are crowned with knowledge.

The crown of the wise [is] their wealth; the folly of fools is folly.

[He who is] slow to anger [has] great understanding, but the hasty of spirit exalts folly.

The tongue of the wise will dispense knowledge, but the mouth of fools will pour out folly.

The heart of him who understands will seek knowledge, but the faces of fools, they will feed on folly.

Folly is a joy to him who lacks {sense}, and a person of understanding {will walk upright}.

A fountain of life is wisdom for its owner, but the instruction of fools is folly.

[May] a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring and not a fool in his folly.

He who returns a word before he will hear, folly itself [belongs] to him as well as shame.

As for the folly of humankind, its way leads to ruin, and against Yahweh his heart will rage.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.

Devising folly [is] a sin, and an abomination to humankind [is] a scoffer.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly lest you become like him--even you.

Answer a fool according to his folly, or else he will be wise in his own eyes.

Like a dog returning to his vomit [is] a fool reverting to his folly.

If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle {along with} the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him.

So {I dedicated myself} to learn about wisdom and [to] learn about delusion and folly. However, I discovered that this also [is] chasing wind.

I said of laughter, "[It is] folly!" and of pleasure, "{What does it accomplish?}"

I also {explored} {the effects of indulging my flesh} with wine. My mind guiding me with wisdom, {I investigated} folly so that I might discover what [is] good under heaven for {humans} to do {during the days of their lives}.

Next, I considered wisdom, as well as delusion and folly. What can anyone [do] who will come after the king that has not already been done?

I realized that wisdom has an advantage over folly, just as light has an advantage over darkness.

I set my mind to try to seek wisdom and the plan, and to know that wickedness [is] foolishness and that folly [is] delusion.

Dead flies cause a bad smell [and] ruin the ointment of the perfumer. So also a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Therefore the Lord did not rejoice over its young men, and he did not have compassion on its orphans and widows, for everyone [was] godless and an evildoer, and every mouth [was] speaking folly. In all of this his anger did not turn away, and still his hand [is] stretched out.

For a fool speaks folly, and his {mind} does iniquity: to {behave wickedly}, and to speak error concerning Yahweh, to leave [the] throat of [the] hungry empty, and he deprives [the] thirsty [of] drink.