Popular Bible Verses about Fool - Page 8

Found 95 Verses (from 71)

Proverbs 26:5

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Answer fools according to their folly, or they will be wise in their own eyes. NIV

Answer a [self-confident] fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes and conceit. [Matt. 16:1-4; 21:24-27.] AMP

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

Proverbs 19:10

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It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury – how much worse for a slave to rule over princes! NIV

Luxury is not fitting for a [self-confident] fool--much less for a slave to rule over princes. AMP

Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. KJV

Judges 16:15

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Then she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you won't confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength." NIV

And she said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times and have not told me in what your great strength lies. AMP

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. KJV

Proverbs 29:20

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Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for them. NIV

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a [self-confident] fool than for him. AMP

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. KJV

Proverbs 21:11

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When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; by paying attention to the wise they get knowledge. NIV

When the scoffer is punished, the fool gets a lesson in being wise; but men of [godly] Wisdom and good sense learn by being instructed. AMP

When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. KJV

Proverbs 27:22

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Though you grind fools in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them. NIV

Even though like grain you should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. AMP

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. KJV

Proverbs 26:10

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Like an archer who wounds at random is one who hires a fool or any passer-by. NIV

[But] like an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or chance passers-by. AMP

The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. KJV

Proverbs 27:3

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Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both. NIV

Stone is heavy and sand weighty, but a fool's [unreasoning] wrath is heavier and more intolerable than both of them. AMP

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. KJV

Proverbs 18:7

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The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives. NIV

A [self-confident] fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to himself. AMP

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. KJV

Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name – his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent. NIV

Let not my lord, I pray you, regard this foolish and wicked fellow Nabal, for as his name is, so is he--Nabal [foolish, wicked] is his name, and folly is with him. But I, your handmaid, did not see my lord's young men whom you sent. AMP

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. KJV