34 Bible Verses about Foolish People

And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in.

Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,

'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.'

But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly."

And David said to God, "I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake."

O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

She answered him, "No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing.

And it was told David, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." And David said, "O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!

I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not with the Lord's authority but as a fool.

Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?

The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of her tribes have made Egypt stagger.

Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,

And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?

You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast of--I am speaking as a fool--I also dare to boast of that.

Though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.

Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?

Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;

They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry."