8 Bible Verses about Madmen

Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?

As a madman who casts firebrands, arrows, and death,

As a madman who casts firebrands, arrows, and death, so is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, Am I not in sport? For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.read more.
[As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife. The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts. Fervent lips and a wicked heart are an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross. He who hates masquerades with his lips, but he lays up deceit within him. When he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart. Though [his] hatred cover itself with guile, his wickedness shall be openly shown before the assembly. He who digs a pit shall fall in it, and he who rolls a stone, it shall return upon him. A lying tongue hates those whom it has wounded, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

As a madman who casts firebrands, arrows, and death, so is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, Am I not in sport?

Then Achish said to his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad. Why then have ye brought him to me? Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?

Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe destroys the understanding.

LORD has made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of LORD, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that thou should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to thee? And he said to them, Ye know the man and what his talk was.