Proverbs' gallery of fools — three distinct kinds, kept distinct in this translation: the EVIL (1:7), the moral fool who despises wisdom; the KESIL (1:22), the thick, dull fool, complacent (KJV 'fool' for both); and the LETS (1:22), the SCOFFER, the cynic who mocks all correction (KJV 'scorner') — the hardest case, past teaching. Hebrew has a whole thesaurus for folly, and chapter 1 opens the drawer. → first discussed at Gen 1:22