he listens to one!1 Here we see the fool involved in an intellectual process: talking himself into a false belief. And so it goes throughout the Bible. In various passages people are said to reason, plan, understand, think, doubt, perceive, make mistakes, purpose, intend, and the like in their hearts! One of the ways to say that a person lacks good sense is to say (translating literally) that he “lacks heart” (cf. Prov. 9:4, 16). Clearly, then, in the Bible the word heart does not mean emotion. With