The shrewd person ¹  conceals ²  knowledge, but foolish people ³  publicize folly. ⁴ 

For ¹  wrath kills the foolish person, ²  and anger ³  slays the silly one.

My wounds ¹  are infected and starting to smell, ²  because of my foolish sins. ³ 

O God, you are aware of my foolish sins; ¹  my guilt is not hidden from you. ² 

Remember how ¹  the enemy hurls insults, O Lord, ²  and how a foolish nation blasphemes your name!

Abandon your foolish ways ¹  so that you may live, ²  and proceed ³  in the way of understanding.”

Those who are wise ¹  store up ²  knowledge, but foolish speech ³  leads to imminent ⁴  destruction.

Leave the presence of a foolish person, ¹  or ²  you will not understand ³  wise counsel. ⁴ 

A wise child ¹  brings joy to his father, but a foolish person ²  despises ³  his mother.

A foolish scheme ¹  is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people. ² 

At the beginning his words ¹  are foolish and at the end ²  his talk ³  is wicked madness, ⁴ 

Again the Lord said to me, “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. ¹ 

Every wise woman ¹  builds ²  her household, ³  but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

A person who has a quick temper ¹  does foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes ²  is hated. ³ 

A foolish child is a grief ¹  to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him. ² 

A foolish child ¹  is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife ²  is like ³  a constant dripping. ⁴ 

The people of those nations ¹  are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless! ² 

Is this how you repay ¹  the Lord, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your creator? He has made you and established you.

But she said to him, “No, my brother! Don’t humiliate me! This just isn’t done in Israel! Don’t do this foolish thing!

Now David ¹  had been told, “Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, ²  “Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!”