Reference: Fool
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Any person who does not act wisely, that is, does not follow the warnings and requirements of God, which are founded in infinite wisdom. Hence "a fool" is put for a wicked man, an enemy or neglecter of God, Ps 14:1; Pr 19:1. So folly is put for wickedness, 2Sa 13:12-13; Ps 38:5, foolish lusts for wicked lusts, etc. Foolish talking, foolish questions, are vain, empty, unprofitable conversation, 2Ti 2:23.
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"No, my brother!" she kept telling him. "Don't humiliate me like this! This just isn't done in Israel! Don't do this utterly foolish thing! And what about me? Where will I go to escape this disgrace? And as for you, you'll be known as one of Israel's greatest fools! So please talk to the king, because he won't withhold me from you!"
Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They are corrupt and commit evil deeds; not one of them practices what is good.
My wounds have putrefied and festered because of my foolishness.
A poor man who walks blamelessly is better than a fool who speaks perversely.
Do not have anything to do with foolish and stupid discussions, because you know they breed arguments.
Hastings
The Heb. language is rich in words which express various kinds of folly. 1. The kes
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As it is, you didn't even allow me to kiss my grandchildren and daughters goodbye! You've acted foolishly.
they are to bring her to the door of her father's house. Then the men of the city are to stone her with boulders until she dies for doing a detestable thing in Israel acting like a prostitute while in her father's house. By doing this, you will remove this evil from among you.
This is not the way to repay the LORD, is it, you foolish and witless people? Is he not your father, who bought you, formed you, and established you?
The one selected as having taken what has been turned over to destruction is to be incinerated, along with everything that pertains to him, because he has transgressed against the covenant of the LORD and committed an outrageous thing in Israel."'"
Later, David's conscience bothered him after he had numbered the army, so David told the LORD, "I have sinned greatly by what I did. But now I am asking you, please remove the guilt of your servant, since I have acted very foolishly."
Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They are corrupt and commit evil deeds; not one of them practices what is good.
Remember this: The enemy scorns the LORD and a foolish people despises your name.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.
The anger of a fool becomes readily apparent, but the prudent person overlooks an insult.
A fool rejects his father's instructions, but anyone who respects reproof acts sensibly.
A fool's mouth is his unraveling, and his lips entrap himself.
To devise folly is sin, and people detest a scoffer.
Rocks are heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation outweighs them both.
Watch your step whenever you visit God's house, and come more ready to listen than to offer a fool's sacrifice, since fools never think they're doing evil.
who frustrates the omens of idle talkers, and drives diviners mad, who turns back the wise, and makes their knowledge foolish;
because they did something stupid in Israel. They committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and in my name they spoke lies that I didn't command them. I'm the one who knows, and I'm a witness," declares the LORD.'"
But I say to you, anyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be subject to punishment. And whoever says to his brother "Raka!' will be subject to the Council. And whoever says, "You fool!' will be subject to hell fire.
But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'
Then Jesus told them, "O, how foolish you are! How slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
making the best use of your time because the times are evil.
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FOOL, FOLLY, or FOOLISHNESS. The term fool is to be understood sometimes according to its plain, literal meaning, as denoting a person void of understanding; but it is often used figuratively, Ps 38:5; 69:5. "The fool," that is, the impious sinner, "hath said in his heart, There is no God," Ps 14:1. "I have sinned: do away the iniquity of thy servant;
for I have done very foolishly," 1Ch 21:8. "Fools make a mock at sin," Pr 14:9. See also the language of Tamar to her brother Amnon: "Do not this folly; for whither shall I cause my shame to go? And as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel," 2Sa 13:13; that is, Thou wilt be accounted a very wicked person. Our Lord seems to have used the term in a sense somewhat peculiar in Mt 5:22: "Whosoever shall say to his brother, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire." But the whole verse shows the meaning to be, that when any one of his professed disciples indulges a temper and disposition of mind contrary to charity, or that peculiar love which the brethren of Christ are bound by his law to have toward each other, Joh 13:34, not only showing anger against another without a cause, but also treating him with contemptuous language, and that with malicious intent, he shall be in danger of eternal destruction.
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And what about me? Where will I go to escape this disgrace? And as for you, you'll be known as one of Israel's greatest fools! So please talk to the king, because he won't withhold me from you!"
David responded to God, "I sinned greatly by behaving this way. But now I am asking you, please remove the guilt of your servant, since I have acted very foolishly."
Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They are corrupt and commit evil deeds; not one of them practices what is good.
My wounds have putrefied and festered because of my foolishness.
God, you know my sins, and my guilt is not hidden from you.
Fools make fun of guilt, but among the upright there are good intentions.
But I say to you, anyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be subject to punishment. And whoever says to his brother "Raka!' will be subject to the Council. And whoever says, "You fool!' will be subject to hell fire.
I'm giving you a new commandment"to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.