“folly” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word folly appears 53 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 50 matching verses are shown below.
- Judges 19:23 And the old man went out to them, and said: Do not so, my brethren, do not so wickedly: because this man is come into my lodging, and cease I pray you from this folly.
- 1 Kings 25:25 Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest.
- 2 Kings 13:12 She answered him: Do not so, my brother, do not force me: for no such thing must be done in Israel. Do not thou this folly.
- Job 6:30 And you shall not find iniquity in my tongue, neither shall folly sound in my mouth.
- Job 8:14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
- Job 36:12 But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.
- Job 42:8 Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.
- Psalms 21:3 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.
- Proverbs 5:23 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.
- Proverbs 6:32 But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul:
- Proverbs 12:23 A cautious man concealeth knowledge: and the heart of fools publisheth folly.
- Proverbs 13:16 The prudent man doth all things with counsel: but he that is a fool, layeth open his folly.
- Proverbs 14:17 The impatient man shall work folly: and the crafty man is hateful.
- Proverbs 14:18 The childish shall possess folly, and the prudent shall look for knowledge.
- Proverbs 14:24 The crown of the wise, is their riches: the folly of fools, imprudence.
- Proverbs 14:29 He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.
- Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: but the mouth of fools bubbleth out folly.
- Proverbs 15:21 Folly is joy to the fool: and the wise man maketh straight his steps.
- Proverbs 17:12 It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.
- Proverbs 19:3 The folly of a man supplanteth his steps: and he fretteth in his mind against God.
- Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.
- Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him.
- Proverbs 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he imagine himself to be wise.
- Proverbs 26:11 As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.
- Proverbs 27:22 Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.
- Proverbs 29:20 Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.
- Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,
- Ecclesiastes 2:3 I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.
- Ecclesiastes 2:12 I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I that he can follow the King his maker?)
- Ecclesiastes 2:13 And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.
- Ecclesiastes 5:2 Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
- Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.
- Ecclesiastes 10:13 The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a mischievous error.
- Wisdom 10:8 For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that they were ignorant of good things; but they left also unto men a memorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned, they could not so much as lie hid.
- Ecclesiasticus 6:2 Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly,
- Ecclesiasticus 8:18 Go not on the way with a bold man, lest he burden thee with his evils: for he goeth according to his own will, and thou shalt perish together with his folly.
- Ecclesiasticus 13:10 Beware that thou be not deceived into folly, and be humbled.
- Ecclesiasticus 13:11 Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest being humbled thou be deceived into folly.
- Ecclesiasticus 20:33 Better is he that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom.
- Ecclesiasticus 21:27 It is the folly of a man to hearken at the door: and a wise man will be grieved with the disgrace.
- Ecclesiasticus 22:16 Turn away from him, and thou shalt find rest, and shalt not be wearied out with his folly.
- Ecclesiasticus 41:18 Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom.
- Ecclesiasticus 47:22 Thou hast stained thy glory, and defiled thy seed so as to bring wrath upon thy children, and to have thy folly kindled,
- Ecclesiasticus 47:27 And he left behind him of his seed, the folly of the nation,
- Isaias 9:17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men: neither shall he have mercy on their fatherless, and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and wicked, and every mouth hath spoken folly. For all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Jeremias 23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied in Baal and deceived my people Israel.
- Jeremias 29:23 Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord.
- Baruch 3:28 And because they had not wisdom, they perished through their folly.
- Osee 2:10 And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and no man shall deliver her out of my hand:
- 2 Machabees 4:6 For he saw that, except the king took care, it was impossible that matters should be settled in peace, or that Simon would cease from his folly.