Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise

Synonyms for Fools: simpletons, idiots, dope, dunces, morons, berks, chumps, dummies, boneheads, charlies, clods, cretins, ignoramuses, imbeciles, jerks, nincompoops, ninnies, blockheads, dimwits, and dolts

Psalms 38:5 (ESV)
My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,

Psalms 69:5 (ESV)
O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

Psalms 85:8 (ESV)
Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

Proverbs 1:7 (ESV)
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:22 (ESV)
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:22 (ESV)
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 3:35 (ESV)
The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.

Proverbs 8:5 (ESV)
O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.

Proverbs 10:10 (ESV)
Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, and a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Proverbs 10:14 (ESV)
The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.

Proverbs 10:21 (ESV)
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Proverbs 12:23 (ESV)
A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.

Proverbs 13:16 (ESV)
Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.

Proverbs 13:19 (ESV)
A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.

Proverbs 13:20 (ESV)
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 14:8 (ESV)
The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.

Proverbs 14:9 (ESV)
Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance.

Proverbs 14:24 (ESV)
The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly.

Proverbs 14:33 (ESV)
Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.

Proverbs 15:2 (ESV)
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Proverbs 15:14 (ESV)
The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

Proverbs 15:20 (ESV)
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 16:22 (ESV)
Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

Proverbs 17:24 (ESV)
The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:25 (ESV)
A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

Proverbs 17:28 (ESV)
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Proverbs 18:2 (ESV)
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

Proverbs 19:3 (ESV)
When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.

Proverbs 19:13 (ESV)
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 19:29 (ESV)
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and beating for the backs of fools.

Proverbs 22:15 (ESV)
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 24:9 (ESV)
The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.

Proverbs 26:4 (ESV)
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.

Proverbs 26:6 (ESV)
Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.

Proverbs 26:7 (ESV)
Like a lame man’s legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:9 (ESV)
Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:11 (ESV)
Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.

Proverbs 29:9 (ESV)
If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.

Proverbs 29:11 (ESV)
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Ecclesiastes 5:4 (ESV)
When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.

Ecclesiastes 7:4 (ESV)
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Ecclesiastes 7:5 (ESV)
It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 (ESV)
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

Ecclesiastes 9:17 (ESV)
The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

Ecclesiastes 10:5-6 (ESV)
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler: 6. folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place.

Isaiah 35:8 (ESV)
And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.

Luke 24:25 (ESV)
And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Romans 1:22-23 (ESV)
Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23. and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

1 Corinthians 1:18 (ESV)
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:21 (ESV)
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 1:25 (ESV)
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1 Corinthians 2:14 (ESV)
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 3:19 (ESV)
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

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