Proverbs: Fools, Folly, Foolishness

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• Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 
• Proverbs 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 
• Proverbs 1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 
• Proverbs 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 
• Proverbs 7:20 With her much fair speech [a flattering woman] she caused him [a simple youth, devoid of understanding] to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 
• Proverbs 8:5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. 
• Proverbs 9:5 Come, eat of my [Wisdom’s] bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 
• Proverbs 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 
• Proverbs 9:13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. 14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, 15 To call passengers who go right on their ways: 16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. 
• Proverbs 10:10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. 
• Proverbs 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. 
• Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. 
• Proverbs 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. 
• Proverbs 12:1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. 
• Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. 
• Proverbs 12:16 A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame. 
• Proverbs 12:23 A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness. 
• Proverbs 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil. 
• Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. 
• Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. 
• Proverbs 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. 
• Proverbs 14:6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. 
• Proverbs 14:7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. 
• Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. 
• Proverbs 14:9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favor. 
• Proverbs 14:15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. 
• Proverbs 14:17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated. 
• Proverbs 14:18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. 
• Proverbs 14:24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly. 
• Proverbs 14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly. 
• Proverbs 14:33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known. 
• Proverbs 17:7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. 
• Proverbs 17:10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool. 
• Proverbs 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. 
• Proverbs 17:16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it? 
• Proverbs 17:21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy. 
• Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him. 
• Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. 
• Proverbs 18:2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. 
• Proverbs 18:6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. 
• Proverbs 18:7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. 
• Proverbs 18:13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. 
• Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. 
• Proverbs 19:3 The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD. 
• Proverbs 19:10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. 
• Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. 
• Proverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. 
• Proverbs 20:3 It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. 
• Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. 
• Proverbs 23:9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. 
• Proverbs 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. 
• Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. 
• Proverbs 26:1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool. 2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. 
• Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 
• Proverbs 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. 
• Proverbs 26:6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage. 
• Proverbs 26:7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. 
• Proverbs 26:8 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honor to a fool. 
• Proverbs 26:9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools. 
• Proverbs 26:10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. 
• Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. 
• Proverbs 26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. 
• Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. 
• Proverbs 27:22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. 
• Proverbs 29:20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. 
• Proverbs 30:21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: 
• Proverbs 30:22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat; 
• Proverbs 30:32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.