34 Bible Verses about Foolish People

And now, O Jehovah my God, Thou hast caused thy servant to reign instead of David my father; and I am a little child, I do not know to go out and to come in;

For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

Stunk -- become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly.

Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words are not with wisdom.

And the heart of David smiteth him, after that he hath numbered the people, and David saith unto Jehovah, 'I have sinned greatly in that which I have done, and now, O Jehovah, cause to pass away, I pray Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.'

and David saith unto God, 'I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing; and now, cause to pass away, I pray Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.'

And Saul saith, 'I have sinned; turn back, my son David, for I do evil to thee no more, because that my soul hath been precious in thine eyes this day; lo, I have acted foolishly, and do err very greatly.'

O God, Thou -- Thou hast known Concerning my overturn, And my desolations from Thee have not been hid.

And she saith to him, 'Nay, my brother, do not humble me, for it is not done so in Israel; do not this folly.

and David declared, saying, 'Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom;' and David saith, 'Make foolish, I pray Thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.'

I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?

for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:

Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;

Let not, I pray thee, my lord set his heart to this man of worthlessness, on Nabal, for as his name is so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I, thine handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom thou didst send;

Only, fools are the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, 'A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?'

Foolish have been princes of Zoan, Lifted up have been princes of Noph, And they have caused Egypt to err, The chief of her tribes.

A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, Is one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.

And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

and five of them were prudent, and five foolish;

they who were foolish having taken their lamps, did not take with themselves oil;

and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?

unwise! thou -- what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die;

in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say it -- I also am bold.

for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.

Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.

They have made Me zealous by 'no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by 'no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, 'I will provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,'