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For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

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

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

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

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

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

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

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

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

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

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

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

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

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

Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.

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

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

The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

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

A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

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

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

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

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

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

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

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

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

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

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

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

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

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

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

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

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

As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

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

The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.