Popular Bible Verses about Fools - Page 8

Found 84 Verses (from 71)

Isaiah 19:13

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The officials of Zoan have become fools, the leaders of Memphis are deceived; the cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray. NIV

The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are confused and deceived; those who are the cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray. AMP

The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. KJV

Proverbs 27:22

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Though you grind fools in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them. NIV

Even though like grain you should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. AMP

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. KJV

Proverbs 18:7

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The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives. NIV

A [self-confident] fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to himself. AMP

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

Job 30:8

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A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land. NIV

Sons of the worthless and nameless, they have been scourged and crushed out of the land. AMP

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. KJV

Isaiah 32:6

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For fools speak folly, their hearts are bent on evil: They practice ungodliness and spread error concerning the LORD; the hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold water. NIV

For the fool speaks folly and his mind plans iniquity: practicing profane ungodliness and speaking error concerning the Lord, leaving the craving of the hungry unsatisfied and causing the drink of the thirsty to fail. AMP

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. KJV

Psalms 107:17

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Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities. NIV

Some are fools [made ill] because of the way of their transgressions and are afflicted because of their iniquities. AMP

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

Proverbs 26:9

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Like a thornbush in a drunkard's hand is a proverb in the mouth of a fool. NIV

Like a thorn that goes [without being felt] into the hand of a drunken man, so is a proverb in the mouth of a [self-confident] fool. AMP

As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools. KJV

Proverbs 26:7

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Like the useless legs of one who is lame is a proverb in the mouth of a fool. NIV

Like the legs of a lame man which hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of a fool. AMP

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

Jeremiah 50:36

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A sword against her false prophets! They will become fools. A sword against her warriors! They will be filled with terror. NIV

A sword upon the babbling liars (the diviners), that they may become fools! A sword upon her mighty warriors, that they may be dismayed and destroyed! AMP

A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. KJV

Psalms 92:6

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Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand NIV

A man in his rude and uncultivated state knows not, neither does a [self-confident] fool understand this: AMP

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. KJV