Psalm 49:13

This [is] the journey [of those who] have foolish [confidence], and those after them [who] accept their sayings. Selah

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

Jeremiah 44:17

But certainly we will do {everything} that went out from our mouths, to make smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out to her libations just as we did, we, and our ancestors, our kings, and our officials, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, [for] then {we had enough to eat}, and we were well-off, and we did not see disaster.

Luke 11:47-48

Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them!

Luke 16:27-28

So he said, 'Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father's house,

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written, "The one who catches the wise in their craftiness,"

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Summary

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

Approve their sayings

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Folly

Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written, "The one who catches the wise in their craftiness,"

Approve their sayings

Jeremiah 44:17
But certainly we will do {everything} that went out from our mouths, to make smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out to her libations just as we did, we, and our ancestors, our kings, and our officials, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, [for] then {we had enough to eat}, and we were well-off, and we did not see disaster.
Luke 11:47
Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them!
Luke 16:27
So he said, 'Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father's house,

General references

Psalm 94:11
Yahweh knows [the] thoughts of humankind, that {they [are] to no purpose}.