Lexicon :: Strong's G877 - aphrosynē

they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

The owner of the house went out and said to them, “Please don’t do this evil, my brothers. After all, this man has come into my house. Don’t commit this horrible outrage.

“Then I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout Israel’s territory, because they have committed a wicked outrage in Israel.

“we will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred out of every thousand, and one thousand out of every ten thousand to get provisions for the troops when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for all the outrage they committed in Israel.”

“My lord should pay no attention to this worthless fool Nabal, for he lives up to his name:[fn] His name means ‘stupid,’ and stupidity is all he knows.[fn] I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.

“Don’t, my brother! ” she cried. “Don’t disgrace me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Don’t commit this outrage!

Throughout all this Job did not sin or blame God for anything.[fn]

Isn’t your piety your confidence,

and the integrity of your life[fn] your hope?

My wounds are foul and festering

because of my foolishness.

God, you know my foolishness,

and my guilty acts are not hidden from you.

Her feet go down to death;

her steps head straight for Sheol.

He will die because there is no discipline,

and be lost because of his great stupidity.

“Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;

pursue the way of understanding.

A fool does not delight in understanding,

but only wants to show off his opinions.[fn]

The one who gives an answer before he listens —

this is foolishness and disgrace for him.

A person’s own foolishness leads him astray,

yet his heart rages against the LORD.

Don’t answer a fool according to his foolishness

or you’ll be like him yourself.

Though you grind a fool

in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,

you will not separate his foolishness from him.

I explored with my mind the pull of wine on my body ​— ​my mind still guiding me with wisdom — and how to grasp folly, until I could see what is good for people to do under heaven[fn] during the few days of their lives.

Then I turned to consider wisdom, madness, and folly, for what will the king’s successor[fn] be like? He[fn] will do what has already been done.

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

The calm words of the wise are heeded

more than the shouts of a ruler over fools.

Dead flies make a perfumer’s oil ferment and stink;

so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Even when the fool walks along the road, his heart lacks sense,

and he shows everyone he is a fool.

Your prophets saw visions for you

that were empty and deceptive;[fn]

they did not reveal your iniquity

and so restore your fortunes.

They saw pronouncements for you

that were empty and misleading.