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Proverbs

1. 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
2. 10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
3. 10:10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
4. 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
5. 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
6. 11:29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
7. 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
8. 13:16 Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
9. 14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
10. 15:5 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
11. 17:7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
12. 17:10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
13. 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
14. 17:16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
15. 17:21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
16. 17:24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
17. 17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
18. 18:2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
19. 19:1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
20. 19:10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
21. 20:3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
22. 23:9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
23. 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
24. 26:1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
25. 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
26. 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
27. 26:6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
28. 26:8 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
29. 26:10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
30. 26:11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
31. 26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
32. 27:22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
33. 28:26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
34. 29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
35. 29:20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
36. 30:22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;