Haller's Concordance: FOOLS

• For I shall not be able to bear my shame, and thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel: but rather speak to the king, and he will not deny me to thee. 2 Ki. 13:13
• Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me. Job 19:18
• Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last. Ps. 94:8
• The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Pr. 1:7
• O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge? Pr. 1:22
• The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Pr. 1:32
• The wise shall possess glory: the promotion of fools is disgrace. Pr. 3:35
• A cautious man concealeth knowledge: and the heart of fools publisheth folly. Pr. 12:23
• The desire that is accomplished, delighteth the soul: fools hate them that flee from evil things. Pr. 13:19
• He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them. Pr. 13:20
• The wisdom of a discreet man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth. Pr. 14:8
• The crown of the wise, is their riches: the folly of fools, imprudence. Pr. 14:24
• The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: but the mouth of fools bubbleth out folly. Pr. 15:2
• The lips of the wise shall disperse knowledge: the heart of fools shall be unlike. Pr. 15:7
• The heart of the wise seeketh instruction: and the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. Pr. 15:14
• Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesseth it: the instruction of fools is foolishness. Pr. 16:22
• Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth. Pr. 17:24
• Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools. Pr. 19:29
• It is an honour for a man to separate himself from quarrels: but all fools are meddling with reproaches. Pr. 20:3
• Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech. Pr. 23:9
• A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools. Pr. 26:3
• As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools. Pr. 26:7
• As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. Pr. 26:9
• The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite. Eccl. 1:15
• ¤ Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do. Eccl. 5:1
• The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth. Eccl. 7:4
• It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools. Eccl. 7:5
• The words of the wise are heard in silence, more than the cry of a prince among fools. Eccl. 9:17
• Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools. Eccl. 10:3
• The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not how to go to the city. Eccl. 10:15
• We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour. Wis. 5:4
• Advise not with fools, for they cannot love but such things as please them. Sir. 8:20
• A man wise in words shall make himself beloved: but the graces of fools shall be poured out. Sir. 20:13
• The heart of fools is in their mouth: and the mouth of wise men is in their heart. Sir. 21:29
• ¤ The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools. Sir. 34:1
• The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? Isa. 19:11
• The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of Memphis are gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay of the people thereof. Isa. 19:13
• And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers shall speak readily and plain. Isa. 32:4
• And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein. Isa. 35:8
• Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make also that which is within? Lk. 11:40
• For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Rom. 1:22
• We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour. 1 Cor. 4:10