Where it appears

• Job 5:2For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
• Job 5:3I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
• Ps 107:17Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
• Prov 1:7The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
• Prov 7:22He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
• Prov 10:8The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.
• Prov 10:10One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.
• Prov 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
• Prov 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
• Prov 11:29He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
• Prov 12:15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.
• Prov 12:16A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
• Prov 14:3The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
• Prov 14:9Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
• Prov 15:5A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
• Prov 16:22Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.
• Prov 17:28Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
• Prov 20:3It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.
• Prov 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
• Prov 27:3A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
• Prov 27:22Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
• Prov 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
• Isa 19:11The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”
• Isa 35:8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
• Jer 4:22“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
• Hos 9:7The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.