'Foolish' in the Bible
Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee.
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
The foolish woman is clamorous;'she is'simple, and knoweth nothing.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.
The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; And the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for his pride; But the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Go into the presence of a foolish man, And thou shalt not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge; But the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swalloweth it up.
If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.
Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroyeth the understanding.
Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
that frustrateth the signs of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Thy prophets have seen for thee false and foolish visions; And they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity, But have seen for thee false oracles and causes of banishment.
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
And Jehovah said unto me, Take unto thee yet again the instruments of a foolish shepherd.