EVIL
To do evil is like sport to a fool, but a man of understanding has wisdom.
Pr 10:23

LYING
One who hides hatred with lying lips, and one who utters a slander, is a fool.
Pr 10:18

TRAPPED
Fools' words get them into constant quarrels; they are asking for a beating. The mouths of fools are their ruin; they trap themselves with their lips.
Pr 18:6,7

WISDOM
A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
Pr 14:16

Only a fool despises a parent's discipline; whoever learns from correction is wise.
Pr 15:5

I will not speak in the hearing of fools, for they will despise the wisdom of my words.
Pr 23:9

A wise child accepts their father's discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
Pr 13:1

Even fools, when they hold their peace, are counted wise: and one that shuts their lips is esteemed a person of understanding.
Pr 17:28

Fools do not delight in understanding, but only in revealing their own mind.
Pr 18:2

REPROOF
A reproof enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Pr 17:10

One's foolishness ruins their way, and their heart rages against the LORD.
Pr 19:3

STRIFE
One's keeping away from strife is an honor, but any fool will quarrel.
Pr 20:3

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, is a fool who repeats their folly.
Pr 26:11

When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish person, the foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest.
Pr 29:9

Fools always loses their temper, but a wise man holds it back.
Pr 29:11

A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish one's heart directs them toward the left.
Eccl 10:2

NONSENSE
For fools speak foolishness and make evil plans. They practice ungodliness and spread false teachings about the Lord.
Is 32:6

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