# כְּסִיל (kesil) Israeli respelling: ke-sil. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H3684. 69 Old Testament occurrences. properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly King James renderings: fool(-ish). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/kesil-h3684 ## Occurrences - [Psalms 49:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/10) — For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. - [Psalms 92:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/92/6) — A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. - [Psalms 94:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/8) — Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? - [Proverbs 1:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/22) — How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? - [Proverbs 1:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/32) — For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. - [Proverbs 3:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/35) — The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools. - [Proverbs 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/5) — O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. - [Proverbs 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/18) — He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. - [Proverbs 10:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/23) — It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. - [Proverbs 12:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/23) — A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness. - [Proverbs 13:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/16) — Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly. - [Proverbs 13:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/19) — The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil. - [Proverbs 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/20) — He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. - [Proverbs 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/7) — Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. - [Proverbs 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/8) — The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. - [Proverbs 14:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/16) — A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. - [Proverbs 14:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/24) — The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly. - [Proverbs 14:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/2) — The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. - [Proverbs 15:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/7) — The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so. - [Proverbs 15:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/14) — The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. - [Proverbs 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/20) — A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother. - [Proverbs 17:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/10) — A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. - [Proverbs 17:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/12) — Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. - [Proverbs 17:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 17:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/25) — A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him. - [Proverbs 18:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/2) — A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. - [Proverbs 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/6) — A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. - [Proverbs 18:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/7) — A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. - [Proverbs 19:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/1) — Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. - [Proverbs 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/10) — Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. - [Proverbs 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/13) — A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. - [Proverbs 19:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/29) — Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. - [Proverbs 21:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 23:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/9) — Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. - [Proverbs 26:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/1) — As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. - [Proverbs 26:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/3) — A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back. - [Proverbs 26:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/4) — Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. - [Proverbs 26:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/5) — Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. - [Proverbs 26:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/6) — He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage. - [Proverbs 26:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/7) — The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. - [Proverbs 26:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/8) — As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool. - [Proverbs 26:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/9) — As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools. - [Proverbs 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/10) — The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. - [Proverbs 26:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/11) — As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. - [Proverbs 26:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/12) — Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. - [Proverbs 28:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/26) — He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. - [Proverbs 29:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/11) — A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. - [Proverbs 29:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/20) — Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. - [Ecclesiastes 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, th… - [Ecclesiastes 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Ecclesiastes 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/4/5) — The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. - [Ecclesiastes 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th… - [Ecclesiastes 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/9) — Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. - [Ecclesiastes 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/17) — The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. - [Ecclesiastes 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/10/2) — A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left. - [Ecclesiastes 10:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/10/12) — The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. - [Ecclesiastes 10:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/10/15) — The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.