17 Bible Verses about Foolishness Of Men

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions.

Destitute of understanding, unsteady, devoid of natural affection, implacable, merciless:

Every man was brutish from knowledge: every founder was ashamed from his carved image; for his molten image a falsehood, and no spirit in them.

Every man was brutish from knowledge; every founder was ashamed from his carved image: for his founding is a falsehood, and no spirit in them.

Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For the shepherds were brutish, and they sought not Jehovah: for this they considered not, and all their flock was scattered.

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.

For my people are foolish, they knew me not; foolish sons are they and they not understanding; wise are they to do evil, and to do good they knew not

And Ephraim will be as an enticed dove, not a heart: they called Egypt, they went to Assur.

Did not their remainder in them remove? They will die, and not in wisdom.

Taking away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth, and he will cause them to wander in a waste, not a way.

For thou didst hide their heart from understanding; for this thou wilt not exalt them.

O Unwise Galatians, who has cast a spell upon you, not to obey the truth, to whom before the eyes Jesus Christ was written beforehand, crucified in you?

And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.

But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong;