17 Bible Verses about Foolishness Of Men

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

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

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;