17 Bible Verses about Foolishness Of Men

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”;

without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;

Every man is stupid, devoid of knowledge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols;
For his molten images are deceitful,
And there is no breath in them.

All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
For his molten images are deceitful,
And there is no breath in them.

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For the shepherds have become stupid
And have not sought the Lord;
Therefore they have not prospered,
And all their flock is scattered.

But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.

But they are altogether stupid and foolish
In their discipline of delusion—their idol is wood!

“For My people are foolish,
They know Me not;
They are stupid children
And have no understanding.
They are shrewd to do evil,
But to do good they do not know.”

So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without sense;
They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

‘Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them?
They die, yet without wisdom.’

“He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s people
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.

“For You have kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.

You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

and again, “The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless.”

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,