⁵The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

¹⁸Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

¹⁹O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

²⁰Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

¹⁷Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

⁷The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

³⁵The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

⁶Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

⁷He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

⁸Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

¹³A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

¹⁴For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

¹⁵To call passengers who go right on their ways:

¹The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

⁸The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

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

¹³In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

¹⁴Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

¹⁸He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

²³It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

¹Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

⁷Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

⁸The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

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

¹⁵The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

⁷The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

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

²¹Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

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

²⁵A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

²A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

⁶A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

⁷A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

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

³It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.