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The fool - The word \u201cfool\u201d is often used in the Scriptures to denote a wicked man - as sin is the essence of folly. Compare Job 2:10; Psalm 74:18; Genesis 34:7; Deuteronomy 22:21. The Hebrew word is rendered \u201cvile person\u201d in Isaiah 32:5-6. Elsewhere it is rendered \u201cfool, foolish,\u201d and \u201cfoolish man.\u201d It is designed to convey the idea that wickedness or impiety is essential folly, or to use a term in describing the wicked which will, perhaps, more than any other, make the mind averse to the sin - for there is many a man who would see more in the word \u201cfool\u201d to be hated than in the word \u201cwicked;\u201d who would rather be called a \u201csinner\u201d than a \u201cfool.\u201d