34 Bible Verses about Foolish People

And now, Jehovah my God, thou madest thy servant king instead of David my father and I a little boy, shall not know to go out and come in.

For I am brutish more than man, and not the understanding of a man to me.

And I stupid, and I shall not know, and I was a beast with thee.

For mine iniquities passed over my head: as a heavy lifting up they will be loaded above me.

Job will speak not with knowledge, and his word not with understanding.

And the heart of David will strike him after he thus reviewed the people. And David will say to Jehovah, I sinned greatly in what I did: and now, O Jehovah, now pass by the iniquity of thy servant, for I was very foolish.

And David will say to God, I sinned greatly that I did this word: and now cause to pass away now the iniquity of thy servant, for I acted very foolishly.

And Saul will say, I sinned; turn back my son David: for I will no more, do to thee evil because that my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I was foolish, and I shall go very much astray.

O God, thou knewest for my folly, and my faults were not hid from thee.

And she will say to him, No, my brother, thou shalt not humble me; for so it shall not be done in Israel: thou shalt not do this folly.

And it was announced to David, saying, Ahithophel among those conspiring with Absalom. And David will say, Now make foolish the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.

I have been mad boasting; ye forced me: for I ought to have been recommended by you: for I was not greatly inferior to the sent, if also I am nothing.

Are ye so unwise? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now completed in the flesh?

For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.

I would ye hold me up a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little.

What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in madness, in this first principle of boasting.

Now my lord shall not set his heart to this man of Belial upon Nebel: for as his name, so is he: Nabal his name, and folly with him: and I thy servant saw not the boys of my lord which thou sentest

Also the chiefs of Zoan are foolish, the wise counseling Pharaoh the counsel became brutish: how shall ye say to Pharaoh, I the son of the wise, the son of kings of old?

The chiefs of Zoan were foolish, the chiefs of Noph were deceived; and they caused Egypt to wander, the pinnacles of its tribes.

The partridge brooded and she brought not forth; to make riches and not in judgment, he shall leave them in the half of his days, and in his latter part he shall be foolish.

And I shall see among the simple, I shall perceive among the sons a youth wanting heart,

And five of them were discerning, and five foolish.

Those foolish having taken their lanterns, took no oil with them.

And the foolish said to the discerning, Give us of your oil; for our lights are quenched.

O foolish, has not he having made the outside, also made the inside?

Froth, what thou sowest is not made alive, except it die:

I speak according to dishonour, as that we were weak. And in what any dares, (I speak in rashness,) I dare also.

For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.

To Jehovah will ye recompense this, A people foolish and not wise? He thy father: did he not buy thee? He made thee, and he will protect thee.

Being turned away from the way of their transgression, they will be humbled from their iniquities.

They made me jealous with not God; They irritated me with their vanities: And I will make them jealous with not a people; With a foolish nation will I irritate them.

But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will make you jealous of not a nation, and by a shortsighted nation will I anger you.