26 Bible Verses about Those Who Were Ignorant

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

"Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?

Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:

Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.

"Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.

And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.

No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, "Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?"

"For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand."

For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified.

And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all.

But to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.

'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.'

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.