17 Bible Verses about Foolishness Of Men

professing to be wise, they were made fools,

for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, 'Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false is his molten image. And there is no breath in them.

Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false is his molten image, And there is no breath in them.

where is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

For the shepherds have become brutish, And Jehovah they have not sought, Therefore they have not acted wisely, And all their flock is scattered.

but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.

And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.

For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- to Asshur they have gone.

Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!

Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!

For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

and again, 'The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;