'Folly' in the Bible
He will die for lack of instruction,And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.
“Forsake your folly and live,And proceed in the way of understanding.”
The woman of folly is boisterous,She is naive and knows nothing.
A prudent man conceals knowledge,But the heart of fools proclaims folly.
Every prudent man acts with knowledge,But a fool displays folly.
The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way,But the foolishness of fools is deceit.
The naive inherit foolishness,But the sensible are crowned with knowledge.
The crown of the wise is their riches,But the folly of fools is foolishness.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding,But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.
The tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable,But the mouth of fools spouts folly.
The mind of the intelligent seeks knowledge,But the mouth of fools feeds on folly.
Folly is joy to him who lacks sense,But a man of understanding walks straight.
Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it,But the discipline of fools is folly.
Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs,Rather than a fool in his folly.
He who gives an answer before he hears,It is folly and shame to him.
The devising of folly is sin,And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
Do not answer a fool according to his folly,Or you will also be like him.
Answer a fool as his folly deserves,That he not be wise in his own eyes.
Like a dog that returns to its vomitIs a fool who repeats his folly.
Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.