9 Bible Verses about Wise Man Or Fool
Most Relevant Verses
Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile!
So what advantage does a wise man have over a fool? And what advantage does a pauper gain by knowing how to survive?
So I thought to myself, "The fate of the fool will happen even to me! Then what did I gain by becoming so excessively wise?" So I lamented to myself, "The benefits of wisdom are ultimately meaningless!"
For the wise man, like the fool, will not be remembered for very long, because in the days to come, both will already have been forgotten. Alas, the wise man dies -- just like the fool!
Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others.
It is better for a person to receive a rebuke from those who are wise than to listen to the song of fools.
But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.
I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.