16 Bible Verses about Foolishness Of Men

Professing to be wise, they became foolish,

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

without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.

Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

But they will not advance in much more, for their folly will be evident to all men, as also that of those men came to be.

But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt [them].

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was earlier described among you, crucified?

and again, Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.

But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful.