32 Bible Verses about Being Without Understanding

He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'

Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: "'You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.

so that "they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven."

"'Go to this people, and say, You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.

he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them."

For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'

"For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

And he said, "Are you also still without understanding?

And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,

And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?

The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. But they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.

You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?

but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.

whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.

So they were saying, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.

no one understands; no one seeks for God.

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand."

They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?

And he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"

Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?

desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.