8 Bible Verses about Madmen

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1 Samuel 21:15

Do I lack madmen that you have brought this one to act like a madman before me? Should this one enter my household?"

Proverbs 26:18

Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,

Proverbs 26:18-28

Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death, so [is] a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?" For lack of wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling will cease.read more.
[As] charcoal [is] to hot embers and wood [is] to fire, so a man of quarrels [is] to kindling strife. The words of a whisperer [are] like delicious morsels, and they go down to the inner parts of the body. [Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart. On his lips, an enemy will pretend, but {inside} he will harbor deceit. When he makes his voice gracious, do not believe him, for seven abominations [are] in his heart. Though hatred is covered with guile, its evil will be exposed in the assembly. He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back. A tongue of deceit hates its victim, and a flattering mouth makes ruin.

Proverbs 26:18-19

Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death, so [is] a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?"

1 Samuel 21:14-15

Then Achish said to his servants, "Look, you see a madman! Why did you bring him to me? Do I lack madmen that you have brought this one to act like a madman before me? Should this one enter my household?"

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression makes a fool of the wise, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

Jeremiah 29:26

"Yahweh made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there are overseers [in] the house of Yahweh over any mad man [who] exhibits the behavior of a prophet, and you must put him into the stocks and into the neck iron,

2 Kings 9:11

Then Jehu came out to the officers of his master, and they said to him, "Peace? Why did this madman come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the man and his foolish talk."

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