17 Bible Verses about Foolishness Of Men

professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, He who takes the wise in their craftiness.

void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful;

Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Every man is become brutish, so as to have no knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not sought Jehovah; therefore have they not acted wisely, and all their flock is scattered.

But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became.

But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

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

Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.

He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste.

For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt them.

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed, crucified among you?

And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;