'Fool' in the Bible
The wise man can see where he is going, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that the same fate happens to them both.
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!
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!
The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.
Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words.
So what advantage does a wise man have over a fool? And what advantage does a pauper gain by knowing how to survive?
For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly also is useless.
Surely oppression can turn a wise person into a fool; likewise, a bribe corrupts the heart.
Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool; otherwise you might die before your time.
Even when a fool walks along the road he lacks sense, and shows everyone what a fool he is.
The words of a wise person win him favor, but the words of a fool are self-destructive.
yet a fool keeps on babbling. No one knows what will happen; who can tell him what will happen in the future?
The toil of a stupid fool wears him out, because he does not even know the way to the city.
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- Ass (94 instances)
- Babbler (4 instances)
- Deceive (90 instances)
- Dissipate (1 instance)
- Donkey (93 instances)
- Fool (110 instances)
- Gull (2 instances)
- Idiot (2 instances)
- Sap (4 instances)
- Shoot (65 instances)
- Slang (1 instance)
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