Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
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נָבָל
H5036 · nâbâl · naw-bawl' · Hebrew
Strong’s definition
stupid; wicked (especially impious)
KJV usage
fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.
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Mapped occurrences
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
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.
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.
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
<<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.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
<<To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.>> The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
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.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!