Ecclesiastes 2:12 And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 2:13 Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 2:16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish! (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 2:19 And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose. (BBE YLT)
Ecclesiastes 4:5 The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 4:13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 5:1 Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 5:3 As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 5:4 When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 6:8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living? (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 6:12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun? (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 7:4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 7:5 It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 7:6 Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 7:7 Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding. (WEB ASV RSV)
Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 7:17 Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)
Ecclesiastes 7:25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 9:17 The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish. (BBE NAS)
Ecclesiastes 10:2 The heart of the wise man goes in the right direction; but the heart of a foolish man in the wrong. (BBE NAS)
Ecclesiastes 10:3 And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 10:6 The foolish are placed in high positions, but men of wealth are kept low. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 10:13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS RSV)
Ecclesiastes 10:14 The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him? (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 10:15 The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city. (KJV BBE WBS YLT)
Isaiah 3:4 And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them. (BBE)
Isaiah 9:17 For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. (BBE NAS)
Isaiah 19:11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?" (WEB ASV BBE RSV)
Isaiah 19:13 The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way. (BBE DBY YLT NAS)
Isaiah 27:11 When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them. (BBE)
Isaiah 32:5 The foolish man will no longer be named noble, and they will not say of the false man that he is a man of honour. (BBE)
Isaiah 32:6 For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it. (BBE)
Isaiah 35:8 And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish. (BBE)
Isaiah 41:24 But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods. (BBE)
Isaiah 44:25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 4:22 For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 5:4 Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God: (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 5:21 Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear: (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 10:3 For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe. (BBE)
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 17:11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish. (BBE)
Jeremiah 25:16 And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them. (YLT)
Jeremiah 50:36 A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken. (BBE YLT)
Lamentations 2:14 Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment. (WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS NAS)
Ezekiel 13:3 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 13:23 For this cause you will see no more foolish visions or make false use of secret arts: and I will make my people free from your power; and you will be certain that I am the Lord. (BBE)
Ezekiel 19:5 Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion. (BBE)
Ezekiel 22:28 And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing. (BBE)
Hosea 7:11 And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria. (BBE)
Hosea 9:7 The days of punishment, the days of reward are come; Israel will be put to shame; the prophet is foolish, the man who has the spirit is off his head, because of your great sin. (BBE)
Hosea 10:4 Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field. (BBE)
Amos 6:5 Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David; (BBE)
Zechariah 11:15 Yahweh said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)