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Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?

Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.

Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.

For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!

A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.

…a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.

For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.

Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit yet have seen nothing.