26 Bible Verses about Those Who Were Ignorant

By the reason of wisdom, all men are become fools. Confounded be all the casters of images: for the thing that they make is but deceit, and hath no breath.

"What is he that hideth his mind with foolish words?

For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things are so high, and pass mine understanding.

Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the LORD?

How can they have understanding, that are the workers of wickedness, eating up my people as it were bread, and calling not upon God?

An unwise man will not know this, and a fool will not understand it -

See that thou meddle not with a fool; and do as though thou hadst no knowledge.

Let them be gathered and come together, let them draw nigh hither, that are escaped of the people: Have they any understanding, that set up the stocks of their Idols, and praise unto a god, that cannot help them?

Moreover, he seeth not the Sun, and knoweth of no rest neither here nor there:

Moreover, your children, which ye said should be a prey; and your sons, which know neither good nor bad this day; they shall go in thither and unto them I will give it, and they shall enjoy it.

For they that be living, know that they shall die: but they that be dead, know nothing, neither deserve they anymore. For their memorial is forgotten,

Whether his children come to worship or no, he cannot tell: And if they be men of low degree, he knoweth not.

For his watchmen are all blind, they have altogether no understanding. They are all dumb dogs, no being able to bark; they are sleepery, sluggish, and lie snorting.

They will not be learned nor understand, but walk on still in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

Yet men neither consider nor understand; because their eyes are stopped that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they can not perceive.

They ponder not in their minds, for they have neither knowledge nor understanding, to think thus, "I have burnt one piece in the fire; I have baked bread with the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh withal, and eaten it: shall I now of the residue make an abomination, and fall down before a rotten piece of wood?"

"'For it is a nation that hath an unhappy forecast, and hath no understanding in them.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the Ass his master's crib; but Israel knoweth nothing. My people hath no understanding.

And wist not what he said, for they were afraid.

And he returned and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy: neither could they wist what they might answer to him.

And one of them named Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year, said unto them, "Ye perceive nothing at all:

And yet the LORD hath not given you a heart to perceive, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear unto this day.

As for Job he hath neither spoken to the purpose nor wisely.

So foolish was I, and ignorant, even as it were a beast before thee.

For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.

Neither showed I myself that I knew anything among you save Jesus Christ, even the same that was crucified.