'Folly' in the Bible

If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has."

He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.

The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.

The shrewd person conceals knowledge, but foolish people publicize folly.

Every shrewd person acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.

The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

The naive inherit folly, but the shrewd are crowned with knowledge.

The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools is folly.

The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.

The tongue of the wise treats knowledge correctly, but the mouth of the fool spouts out folly.

The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

Folly is a joy to one who lacks sense, but one who has understanding follows an upright course.

Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.

It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.

The one who gives an answer before he listens -- that is his folly and his shame.

A person's folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the Lord.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own estimation.

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

I said of partying, "It is folly," and of self-indulgent pleasure, "It accomplishes nothing!"

I realized that wisdom is preferable to folly, just as light is preferable to darkness:

For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly also is useless.

I tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly.

This is the unfortunate fact about everything that happens on earth: the same fate awaits everyone. In addition to this, the hearts of all people are full of evil, and there is folly in their hearts during their lives -- then they die.

One dead fly makes the perfumer's ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom.