34 Bible Verses about Foolish People

O Jehovah God, you allowed me to succeed my father as king, even though I am very young and do not know how to rule.

Surely I am more stupid then any man, and do not have the understanding of a man.

I was so foolish and ignorant: I was like a beast before you.

My wounds smell rotten. They fester because of my stupidity.

that Job is speaking from ignorance and that nothing he says make sense.

After David had everyone counted, he felt guilty and told Jehovah: What I did was stupid and terribly wrong. Jehovah, please forgive me.

David said to God: I have committed a terrible sin in doing this! Please forgive me. I have acted foolishly.

My servant David, Saul said, I have sinned. Come back. I will not harm you again. You valued my life today. I have acted like a fool. I made a terrible mistake.

O God, you know my foolishness. My sins are not hidden from you.

She said: No! Do not force me to do this disgraceful thing. It is evil.

Someone told David: Ahithophel is helping Absalom conspire against you! David said: Please Jehovah keep Ahithophel's plans from working!

I have become a fool in boasting. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended about you: for in nothing am I inferior to the most prominent apostles, though I am nothing.

Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now made perfect (mature) in the flesh?

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

I hope you can put up with me in a little foolishness: but indeed you do put up with me.

I say again, let no man think me foolish. If you do, yet receive me as foolish that I also may boast a little.

That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

You should not take this worthless person Nabal seriously. He is like his name. His name is Nabal (Godless Fool). He is foolish. But I did not see the young men you sent.

The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools. The wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh: I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings?

The officials of Zoan have become fools. The leaders of Memphis (Noph) are deceived. The cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray.

A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.

I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youth, a young man without understanding.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

The foolish took no oil with their lamps.

All the foolish virgins said to the wise: 'Give us your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

You foolish ones. Did he that made the outside also make the inside?

You fool, that which you sow is not alive unless it first dies.

I speak concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. If any are bold, I speak foolishly for I am also bold.

If I ever wanted to brag, I would not be a fool. Instead, I would be telling the truth. But I am going to spare you so that no one may think more of me than what he sees or hears about me.

Is this how you repay Jehovah, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father and creator, who made you and formed you?

Fools suffered because of their disobedience and because of their crimes.

They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods. They angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry.

I say Israel did not know. First Moses said: I will provoke you people to rivalry through that which is not a nation, and I will anger you with a foolish nation. (Deuteronomy 32:21)