34 Bible Verses about Foolish People

Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David's place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced.

Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding;

I was ignorant and lacked insight; I was as senseless as an animal before you.

My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins.

that Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding.

David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O Lord, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

Saul replied, "I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won't harm you, for you treated my life with value this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!"

O God, you are aware of my foolish sins; my guilt is not hidden from you.

But she said to him, "No, my brother! Don't humiliate me! This just isn't done in Israel! Don't do this foolish thing!

Now David had been told, "Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, "Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!"

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those "super-apostles," even though I am nothing.

Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!

I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

My lord should not pay attention to this wicked man Nabal. He simply lives up to his name! His name means 'fool,' and he is indeed foolish! But I, your servant, did not see the servants my lord sent.

The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; Pharaoh's wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh, "I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?"

The officials of Zoan are fools, the officials of Memphis are misled; the rulers of her tribes lead Egypt astray.

The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool."

and I saw among the naive -- I discerned among the youths -- a young man who lacked wisdom.

Five of the virgins were foolish, and five were wise.

When the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take extra olive oil with them.

The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.'

You fools! Didn't the one who made the outside make the inside as well?

Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

(To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about (I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing.

For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,

Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your creator? He has made you and established you.

They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, and suffered because of their sins.

They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

But again I ask, didn't Israel understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger."