The Bible dedicates a whole book to specifically call out foolishness. I have attempted to draw out every portion of Proverbs that addresses the fool. I will summarise the lesson for each mention of the fool and leave the reference. This list can help you run a quick self-diagnosis to see if you are a fool in the eyes of God the Creator of the heavens and the Earth. Let’s begin.
You are a fool if you despise wisdom and instruction from experienced and godly people (Proverbs 1:7).
You are a fool if you hate knowledge by failing to pursue it (Proverbs 1:22).
You are a fool if you are complacent- satisfied with your self and see no need to grow or improve yourself (Proverbs 1:32).
You are a fool if you are scornful; because you treat people contemptuously and lack humility, your legacy will be filled with shame (Proverbs 3:34-35).
You are a fool if you indulge in sexual sin and have no discipline over your private parts because of lust (Proverbs 5:21-23).
You are a fool if you get involved with a married person and commit adultery (Proverbs 6:32).
You are fool if you indulge in sexual immorality and imagine it to be harmless (Proverbs 7:22- Septuagint)
You are a fool if you do not make the effort to gain understanding in life (Proverbs 8:5).
You are a fool if you refuse to forsake your sinful ways so that you may gain understanding (Proverbs 9:6).
You are a fool if you are unruly and unrestrained in your passions (Proverbs 9:13a).
You are a fool if you are ignorant and without knowledge (Proverbs 9:13b).
You are a fool if you think secret sinful pleasures are joyful (Proverbs 9:13b).
You are a fool if you bring grief to your parents because of your sinful living (Proverbs 10:1).
You are a fool if you talk too much and ignore specific instructions to help you out in life (Proverbs 10:8).
You are a fool if you talk too much like a chatter box (Proverbs 10:10).
You are a fool if your excessive talking puts you in trouble (Proverbs 10:14).
You are a fool if you hate people but pretend to like them by speaking nice words to them (Proverbs 10:18a).
You are a fool if you spread slander about people (Proverbs 10:18b).
You are a fool if you lack common sense (Proverbs 10:21).
You are a fool if you find pleasure in wicked schemes that hurt people (Proverbs 10:23).
You are a fool if you bring ruin to your family. You will only inherit the wind and you will be a servant to the wise (Proverbs 11:29).
You are a fool if you are wise in your own eyes. You are also a fool if you imagine your perspective is the only right way and you are deaf to advice (Proverbs 12:15).
You are a fool if you are quick to get angry and have no capacity to overlook an offence (Proverbs 12:16).
You are a fool if you have no capacity to keep things to yourself but instead feel compelled to blurt out whatever little you know (Proverbs 12:23).
You are a fool if you rush to act without having the requisite knowledge (Proverbs 13:16).
You are a fool if you insist on your path of wickedness and evil (Proverbs 13:19).
You are a fool if your friends are fools (Proverbs 13:20).
You are a fool if your words and deeds contribute to the destruction of your marriage and family (Proverbs 14:1).
You are a fool if your talk is full of pride (Proverbs 14:3).
You are a fool if you have no knowledge or wisdom from God; people ought to avoid you and stay far from you (Proverbs 14:7).
You are a fool if you live a life where you deny the truth and deceive yourself (Proverbs 14:8).
You are a fool if you make a mockery of what God calls sin and don’t take it seriously (Proverbs 14:9).
You are a fool if you participate in evil activity and arrogantly believe that you cannot be affected by it (Proverbs 14:16).
You are a fool if you are quick-tempered and rash in your anger (Proverbs 14:17).
You are a fool because you were first a simpleton; the harvest of your lack of common sense is the foolishness that you now possess (Proverbs 14:18).
You are a fool if the fruit of your foolish life decisions is nothing but foolish results (Proverbs 14:24).
You are a fool if you are impulsive and are quick to get angry (Proverbs 14:29).
You are a fool if you always speak out what is in your heart and lack discretion and moderation in your talking (Proverbs 14:33).
You are a fool if your mouth pours out foolish talk despite being exposed to knowledge (Proverbs 15:2).
You are a fool if you despise correction and godly instruction from your father (Proverbs 15:5).
You are a fool if your heart has no capacity to produce life-giving wisdom (Proverbs 15:7).
You are a fool if the content you feed your mind has foolishness (Proverbs 15:14).
You are a fool if you despise your mother (Proverbs 15:20).
You are a fool if you lack discernment; the evidence of your foolishness is the joy you have in ungodly living (Proverbs 15:21).
You are a fool if you are incorrigible; attempting to correct you is equal to participating in your foolishness (Proverbs 16:22).
You are a fool if excellent speech and wise words are strange coming from your mouth (Proverbs 17:7).
You are a fool if you cannot stomach godly rebuke (Proverbs 17:10).
You are a fool if your encounter with people always results in wounding them; meeting an angry mama bear who has lost her cubs is a better fortune than meeting you (Proverbs 17:12).
You are a fool if you have the capacity to acquire wisdom but have no heart for it (Proverbs 17:16).
You are a fool if you bring sorrow to your father because of your scoffing (Proverbs 17:21).
You are a fool if you are myopic in life and cannot see the wisdom of doing things God’s way (Proverbs 17:24).
You are a fool if you bring grief and bitterness to your parents because of your sinful life (Proverbs 17:10).
You are a fool if you have no capacity to be quiet and hold your peace (Proverbs 17:28).
You are a fool if you have no desire to understand others but only in expressing your opinions (Proverbs 18:2).
You are a fool if you enter into arguments that will lead to your physical beating (Proverbs 18:6).
You are a fool if your mouth puts you in trouble and ends up weighing down your soul (Proverbs 18:7).
You are a fool if you open your mouth to respond to a matter before understanding the problem fully; you will only be left with shame when you find out you spoke prematurely (Proverbs 18:13).
You are a fool if you speak perversely; poor people with integrity are have more benefits than you (Proverbs 19:1).
You are a fool if you ruin your own life because of your bad decisions yet you blame God and become angry with Him (Proverbs 19:3).
You are a fool if the reality of having luxury for yourself is as odd as servants ruling princes (Proverbs 19:10).
You are a fool if you ruin all that your father has built (Proverbs 19:13).
You are a fool if your unwise actions constantly bring negative consequences; you deserve to be beaten with rods (Proverbs 19:29).
You are a fool if you start a quarrel (Proverbs 20:3).
You are a fool if you squander finances and resources around you (Proverbs 21:20).
You are a fool if people refrain from speaking words of wisdom in your presence because you will despise them (Proverbs 23:9).
You are a fool if you are too dull to grasp the ways of wisdom; you have no content to share when others speak about godliness (Proverbs 24:7).
You are a fool if you devise silly schemes; your silliness is a sin against God (Proverbs 24:9).
You are a fool if you are undeserving of honour; giving honour to you is like having snow in the summertime or rain in times of harvest (Proverbs 26:1).
You are a fool if you require a physical beating to get you serious, focused and working; the beating you deserve is as equal as a whip to a horse and a bridle for a donkey (Proverbs 26:3).
You are a fool if people cannot answer you because if they do, they will look as foolish as you just by speaking (Proverbs 26:4).
You are a fool if people have to answer you wittily so that they can put an end to your foolishness (Proverbs 26:5).
You are a fool if you cannot be trusted as a messenger of news; the people who sent you would rather cut off their own feet or look for violent people to beat them up, rather than trust you again (Proverbs 26:6).
You are a fool if you utter proverbs yet do not apply them to your life; proverbs in your mouth are as useless as the limp legs of a lame man (Proverbs 26:7).
You are a fool if the honour you are given will only result in you hurting people; you don’t deserve that honour; in fact, giving you honour is like arming a slingshot with a stone- the only result is people getting hurt (Proverbs 26:8).
You are a fool if you speak proverbs that you do not apply; proverbs in your mouth are as useless and harmful as thorns in the hands of a drunkard (Proverbs 26:9).
You are a fool if you don’t learn from your mistakes and end up repeating them; you are like a dog returning to its vomit (Proverbs 26:11).
You are a fool of fools if you are wise in your own eyes. Regular fools are better off than you (Proverbs 26:12).
You are a fool if you are wrathful because of being easily provoked (Proverbs 27:3).
You are a fool if even the worst beatings cannot remove ungodly and foolish behaviour out of you (Proverbs 27:22).
You are a fool if you trust your own heart instead of heeding wisdom (Proverbs 28:26).
You are a fool if your strategy in debates is ranting and laughing at your opponent (Proverbs 29:9).
You are a fool if you vent your feelings and have no capacity to restrain yourself (Proverbs 29:11).
You are a fool of fools if you are hasty in your speech; regular fools are better off than you (Proverbs 29:20).
You are a fool if you are a glutton; the earth cannot stand your behaviour when your stomach is full (Proverbs 30:22).
You are a fool if you seek your own exaltation and glory (Proverbs 30:32).
