Strong’s H3684

כְּסִיל

kesil · 69 Old Testament occurrences

King James renderings: fool(-ish).

Every Old Testament occurrence

• Psalms 49:10For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
• Psalms 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
• Psalms 94:8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
• Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
• Proverbs 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
• Proverbs 3:35The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
• Proverbs 8:5O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
• Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
• Proverbs 10:18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
• Proverbs 10:23It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
• Proverbs 12:23A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
• Proverbs 13:16Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
• Proverbs 13:19The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
• Proverbs 13:20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
• Proverbs 14:7Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
• Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
• Proverbs 14:16A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
• Proverbs 14:24The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
• Proverbs 14:33Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
• Proverbs 15:2The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
• Proverbs 15:7The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
• Proverbs 15:14The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
• Proverbs 15:20A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
• Proverbs 17:10A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
• Proverbs 17:12Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
• Proverbs 17:16Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
• Proverbs 17:21He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
• Proverbs 17:24Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
• Proverbs 17:25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
• Proverbs 18:2A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
• Proverbs 18:6A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
• Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
• Proverbs 19:1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
• Proverbs 19:10Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
• Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
• Proverbs 19:29Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
• Proverbs 21:20There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
• Proverbs 23:9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
• Proverbs 26:1As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
• Proverbs 26:3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
• Proverbs 26:4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
• Proverbs 26:5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
• Proverbs 26:6He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
• Proverbs 26:7The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
• Proverbs 26:8As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
• Proverbs 26:9As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
• Proverbs 26:10The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
• Proverbs 26:11As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
• Proverbs 26:12Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
• Proverbs 28:26He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
• Proverbs 29:11A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
• Proverbs 29:20Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
• Ecclesiastes 2:14The 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 2:15Then 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, th…
• Ecclesiastes 2:16For 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…
• Ecclesiastes 4:5The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
• Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
• Ecclesiastes 5:1Keep 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 th…
• Ecclesiastes 5:3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
• Ecclesiastes 5:4When 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 6:8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
• Ecclesiastes 7:4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
• Ecclesiastes 7:5It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
• Ecclesiastes 7:6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
• Ecclesiastes 7:9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
• Ecclesiastes 9:17The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
• Ecclesiastes 10:2A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.
• Ecclesiastes 10:12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
• Ecclesiastes 10:15The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.