Haller's Concordance: FOOL

• Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest. 1 Ki. 25:25
• I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately. Job 5:3
• ¤ The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one. Ps. 14:1
• Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool. Ps. 39:8
• He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers: Ps. 49:10
• ¤ The fool said in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good. Ps. 53:1
• The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things. Ps. 92:6
• Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds, Pr. 7:22
• He that is a little one, let him turn to me. And to the fool she said: Pr. 9:16
• The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips. Pr. 10:8
• Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion. Pr. 10:14
• A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man. Pr. 10:23
• He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise. Pr. 11:29
• The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels. Pr. 12:15
• A fool immediately sheweth his anger: but he that dissembleth injuries is wise. Pr. 12:16
• The prudent man doth all things with counsel: but he that is a fool, layeth open his folly. Pr. 13:16
• In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride: but the lips of the wise preserve them. Pr. 14:3
• A fool will laugh at sin, but among the just grace shall abide. Pr. 14:9
• A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him. Pr. 14:14
• A wise man feareth, and declineth from evil: the fool leapeth over, and is confident. Pr. 14:16
• A fool laugheth at the instruction of his father: but he that regardeth reproofs shall become prudent. In abundant justice there is the greatest strength: but the devices of the wicked shall be rooted out. Pr. 15:5
• Folly is joy to the fool: and the wise man maketh straight his steps. Pr. 15:21
• Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince. Pr. 17:7
• A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool. Pr. 17:10
• It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly. Pr. 17:12
• What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils. Pr. 17:16
• A fool is born to his own disgrace: and even his father shall not rejoice in a fool. Pr. 17:21
• Even a fool, if he will hold his peace, shall be counted wise: and if he close his lips, a man of understanding. Pr. 17:28
• A fool receiveth not the words of prudence: unless thou say those things which are in his heart. Pr. 18:2
• The lips of a fool intermeddle with strife: and his mouth provoketh quarrels. Pr. 18:6
• The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul. Pr. 18:7
• He that answereth before he heareth, sheweth himself to be a fool, and worthy of confusion. Pr. 18:13
• Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes. Pr. 19:10
• The wicked man being scourged, the fool shall be wiser: but if thou rebuke a wise man, he will understand discipline. Pr. 19:25
• Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he shall not open his mouth. Pr. 24:7
• He that deviseth to do evils, shall be called a fool. Pr. 24:8
• The thought of a fool is sin: and the detractor is the abomination of men. Pr. 24:9
• As snow in summer, and rain in harvest, so glory is not seemly for a fool. Pr. 26:1
• Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him. Pr. 26:4
• Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he imagine himself to be wise. Pr. 26:5
• As he that casteth a stone into the heap of Mercury: so is he that giveth honour to a fool. Pr. 26:8
• Judgment determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth anger. Pr. 26:10
• As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly. Pr. 26:11
• Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him. Pr. 26:12
• A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both. Pr. 27:3
• Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him. Pr. 27:22
• He that trusteth in his own heart, is a fool: but he that walketh wisely, he shall be saved. Pr. 28:26
• If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry, or laugh, he shall find no rest. Pr. 29:9
• A fool uttereth all his mind: a wise man deferreth, and keepeth it till afterwards. Pr. 29:11
• By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when he is filled with meat: Pr. 30:22
• There is that hath appeared a fool after he was lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon his mouth. Pr. 30:32
• The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike. Eccl. 2:14
• And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity. Eccl. 2:15
• For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool forever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned. Eccl. 2:16
• Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there anything so vain? Eccl. 2:19
• The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh, saying: Eccl. 4:5
• What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life? Eccl. 6:8
• For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity. Eccl. 7:6
• Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool. Eccl. 7:9
• I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent: Eccl. 7:25
• The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a fool is in his left hand. Eccl. 10:2
• Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools. Eccl. 10:3
• A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath. Eccl. 10:6
• The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a fool shall throw him down headlong. Eccl. 10:12
• A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him? Eccl. 10:14
• The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. Wis. 15:5
• Honour and glory is in the word of the wise, but the tongue of the fool is his ruin. Sir. 5:15
• A fool will upbraid bitterly: and a gift of one ill taught consumeth the eyes. Sir. 18:18
• At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child. Sir. 19:11
• As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool. Sir. 19:12
• A wise man will hold his peace till he see opportunity: but a babbler, and a fool, will regard no time. Sir. 20:7
• The gift of the fool shall do thee no good: for his eyes are sevenfold. Sir. 20:14
• A fool shall have no friend, and there shall be no thanks for his good deeds. Sir. 20:17
• A parable coming out of a fool's mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season. Sir. 20:22
• The heart of a fool is like a broken vessel, and no wisdom at all shall it hold. Sir. 21:17
• The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: but in the lips of the wise, grace shall be found. Sir. 21:19
• As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as words without sense. Sir. 21:21
• Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand. Sir. 21:22
• A fool lifteth up his voice in laughter: but a wise man will scarce laugh low to himself. Sir. 21:23
• The foot of a fool is soon in his neighbour's house: but a man of experience will be abashed at the person of the mighty. Sir. 21:25
• A fool will peep through the window into the house: but he that is well taught will stand without. Sir. 21:26
• He that teacheth a fool, is like one that glueth a potsherd together. Sir. 22:7
• He speaketh with one that is asleep, who uttereth wisdom to a fool: and in the end of the discourse he saith: Who is this? Sir. 22:9
• Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the fool, for his understanding faileth. Sir. 22:10
• For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death. Sir. 22:12
• The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of their life. Sir. 22:13
• Talk not much with a fool and go not with him that hath no sense. Sir. 22:14
• What is heavier than lead? and what other name hath he but fool? Sir. 22:17
• So also a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool shall not resist against the violence of fear. Sir. 22:22
• As a fearful heart in the thought of a fool at all times will not fear, so neither shall he that continueth always in the commandments of God. Sir. 22:23
• A poor man that is proud: a rich man that is a liar: an old man that is a fool, and doting. Sir. 25:4
• A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun: but a fool is changed as the moon. Sir. 27:12
• Gold is a stumblingblock to them that sacrifice to it: woe to them that eagerly follow after it, and every fool shall perish by it. Sir. 31:7
• The heat of drunkenness is the stumblingblock of the fool, lessening strength and causing wounds. Sir. 31:40
• The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree. Sir. 33:5
• The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the deceitful be called great: Isa. 32:5
• For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty. Isa. 32:6
• Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them. Jer. 10:14
• As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool. Jer. 17:11
• But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Mt. 5:22
• But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? Lk. 12:20
• Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 1 Cor. 3:18