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 (KJV)
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

Psalms 69:5 (KJV)
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

Psalms 85:8 (KJV)
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

Proverbs 1:7 (KJV)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:22 (KJV)
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:32 (KJV)
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 3:35 (KJV)
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

Proverbs 8:5 (KJV)
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

Proverbs 10:10 (KJV)
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 10:14 (KJV)
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

Proverbs 10:21 (KJV)
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

Proverbs 12:23 (KJV)
A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

Proverbs 13:16 (KJV)
Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.

Proverbs 13:19 (KJV)
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Proverbs 13:20 (KJV)
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Proverbs 14:8 (KJV)
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

Proverbs 14:9 – KJV
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

Proverbs 14:24 – KJV
The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

Proverbs 14:33 – KJV
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.

Proverbs 15:2 – KJV
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

Proverbs 15:14 – KJV
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

Proverbs 15:20 – KJV
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 16:22 – KJV
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

Proverbs 17:24 – KJV
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:25 – KJV
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

Proverbs 17:28 – KJV
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Proverbs 18:2 – KJV
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

Proverbs 19:3 – KJV
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

Proverbs 19:13 – KJV
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Proverbs 19:29 – KJV
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Proverbs 22:15 – KJV
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Proverbs 24:9 – KJV
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

Proverbs 26:4 – KJV
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Proverbs 26:6 – KJV
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

Proverbs 26:7 – KJV
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:9 – KJV
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:11 – KJV
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

Proverbs 29:9 – KJV
If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

Proverbs 29:11 – KJV
A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

Ecclesiastes 5:4 – KJV
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay
that which thou hast vowed.

Ecclesiastes 7:4 – KJV
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 – KJV
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 – KJV
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Ecclesiastes 9:17 – KJV
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

Ecclesiastes 10:5-6 – KJV
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: 6. Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

Isaiah 35:8 – KJV
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

Luke 24:25 – KJV
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

Romans 1:22-23 – KJV
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

1 Corinthians 1:18 – KJV
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:21 – KJV
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

1 Corinthians 1:25 – KJV
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1 Corinthians 2:14 – KJV
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 3:19 – KJV
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

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