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The word 'fool' appears 36 times in the book of Proverbs in the KJV starting with Proverbs 7:22. The word appears 189 times if you include word variants (e.g. fools, foolish, foolishly, foolishness, etc.).
In the NIV bible it is mentioned 31 times throughout the book of proverbs. Most of them are in chapters 11, 12, and 13.
none because the bible says if you call even the poorest person a fool you will go to hell
In the KJV and NIV it is used 6 times, and 3 in the NLT.