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aphrōn (af'-rone) ▪ ἄφρων ▪ G878 ▪ Uses: 143

without reason, foolish (Adjective)

Luke 11:40. Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

Luke 12:20. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

Romans 2:20. An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

1 Corinthians 15:36. Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

2 Corinthians 11:16. I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

2 Corinthians 11:19. For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

2 Corinthians 12:6. For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

2 Corinthians 12:11. I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

Ephesians 5:17. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

1 Peter 2:15. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

2 Samuel 13:13. And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.

Job 2:10. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Job 5:2. For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

Job 5:3. I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Job 30:8. They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Job 34:36. My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

Psalm 14:1. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Psalm 39:9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

Psalm 49:11. Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Psalm 53:2. God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Psalm 74:18. Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

Psalm 74:22. Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

Psalm 92:7. When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Psalm 94:8. Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

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

Proverbs 6:12. A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Proverbs 7:7. And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

Proverbs 9:4. Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Proverbs 9:13. A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Proverbs 9:16. Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Proverbs 10:1. The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 10:4. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Proverbs 10:18. He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

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

Proverbs 10:23. It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

Proverbs 11:29. He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Proverbs 12:1. Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Proverbs 12:15. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

Proverbs 12:16. A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.

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

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

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

Proverbs 14:1. Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Proverbs 14:3. In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Proverbs 14:7. Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

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

Proverbs 14:16. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

Proverbs 14:18. The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

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

Proverbs 14:29. He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Proverbs 14:33. 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. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

Proverbs 15:5. A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 15:7. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

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

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

Proverbs 16:27. An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Proverbs 17:2. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

Proverbs 17:7. Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

Proverbs 17:10. A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 17:12. Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 17:16. Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

Proverbs 17:18. A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

Proverbs 17:21. He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

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

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

Proverbs 18:6. A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

Proverbs 18:7. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Proverbs 18:22. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Proverbs 19:10. Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

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

Proverbs 19:25. Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Proverbs 19:28. An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

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

Proverbs 20:3. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

Proverbs 21:20. There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

Proverbs 22:3. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Proverbs 23:9. Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

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

Proverbs 24:30. I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

Proverbs 30:2. Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

Proverbs 30:22. For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

Ecclesiastes 2:14. The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:15. Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:16. For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

Ecclesiastes 2:19. And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:5. The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

Ecclesiastes 4:13. Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Ecclesiastes 5:1. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Ecclesiastes 5:3. For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

Ecclesiastes 5:4. 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 6:8. For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

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

Ecclesiastes 7:6. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

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

Ecclesiastes 10:2. A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

Ecclesiastes 10:3. Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

Ecclesiastes 10:6. Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

Ecclesiastes 10:12. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Ecclesiastes 10:14. A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 10:15. The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

Wisdom of Solomon 1:3. For perverse thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise:

Wisdom of Solomon 3:2. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery:

Wisdom of Solomon 3:12. Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.

Wisdom of Solomon 5:4. We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour.

Wisdom of Solomon 12:24. For they went astray for a long time in the ways of error, holding those things for gods which are the most worthless among beasts, living after the manner of children without understanding.

Wisdom of Solomon 14:11. Therefore there shall be no respect had even to the idols of the Gentiles: because the creatures of God are turned to an abomination, and a temptation to the souls of men, and a snare to the feet of the unwise.

Wisdom of Solomon 15:5. The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image.

Wisdom of Solomon 15:14. But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure:

Sirach 16:23. He that wanteth understanding thinketh vain things, and the foolish, and erring man, thinketh foolish things.

Sirach 19:23. And there is one that uttereth an exact word telling the truth. There is one that humbleth himself wickedly, and his interior is full of deceit:

Sirach 20:7. A wise man will hold his peace till he see opportunity: but a babbler, and a fool, will regard no time.

Sirach 20:14. The gift of the fool shall do thee no good: for his eyes are sevenfold.

Sirach 20:22. A parable coming out of a fool's mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season.

Sirach 21:23. A fool lifteth up his voice in laughter: but a wise man will scarce laugh low to himself.

Sirach 22:13. The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of their life.

Sirach 27:11. The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so do sins for them that work iniquities.

Sirach 31:7. Gold is a stumblingblock to them that sacrifice to it: woe to them that eagerly follow after it, and every fool shall perish by it.

Sirach 31:30. Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very many.

Sirach 34:1. The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.

Isaiah 59:7. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Jeremiah 4:22. For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 17:11. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.


Septuagint Verses with Unaligned Numbering:

Proverbs 33:1

Proverbs 33:4

Proverbs 33:5

Proverbs 33:6

Proverbs 33:7

Proverbs 33:8

Proverbs 33:9

Proverbs 33:10

Proverbs 33:11

Proverbs 33:12

Proverbs 34:3

Proverbs 34:12

Proverbs 34:22

Proverbs 35:26

Proverbs 36:11

Proverbs 36:20

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