'Foolish' in the Bible
Is this how you repay the Lord,you foolish and senseless people?Isn’t He your Father and Creator?Didn’t He make you and sustain you?
They have provoked My jealousywith their so-called gods;they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.So I will provoke their jealousywith an inferior people;I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
Samuel said to Saul, “You have been foolish. You have not kept the command which the Lord your God gave you. It was at this time that the Lord would have permanently established your reign over Israel,
David’s conscience troubled him after he had taken a census of the troops. He said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I’ve done. Now, Lord, because I’ve been very foolish, please take away Your servant’s guilt.”
David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now, please take away Your servant’s guilt, for I’ve been very foolish.”
For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout the earth to show Himself strong for those whose hearts are completely His. You have been foolish in this matter. Therefore, you will have wars from now on.”
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
For one can see that wise men die;foolish and stupid men also pass away.Then they leave their wealth to others.
Remember this: the enemy has mocked Yahweh,and a foolish people has insulted Your name.
I will listen to what God will say;surely the Lord will declare peaceto His people, His godly ones,and not let them go back to foolish ways.
It is foolish to spread a netwhere any bird can see it,
“How long, foolish ones, will you love ignorance?How long will you mockers enjoy mockingand you fools hate knowledge?
Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced;develop common sense, you who are foolish.
Solomon’s proverbs:A wise son brings joy to his father,but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.
A wise heart accepts commands,but foolish lips will be destroyed.
A sly wink of the eye causes grief,and foolish lips will be destroyed.
A shrewd person conceals knowledge,but a foolish heart publicizes stupidity.
Every wise woman builds her house,but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
Stay away from a foolish man;you will gain no knowledge from his speech.
A wise son brings joy to his father,but a foolish man despises his mother.
A foolish son is grief to his fatherand bitterness to the one who bore him.
A foolish son is his father’s ruin,and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.
Precious treasure and oil are in the dwelling of a wise person,but a foolish man consumes them.
A foolish scheme is sin,and a mocker is detestable to people.
A sensible person sees danger and takes cover;the inexperienced keep going and are punished.
If you have been foolish by exalting yourselfor if you’ve been scheming,put your hand over your mouth.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer pays attention to warnings.
Don’t be excessively wicked, and don’t be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
“For My people are fools;they do not know Me.They are foolish children,without understanding.They are skilled in doing what is evil,but they do not know how to do what is good.”
Hear this,you foolish and senseless people.They have eyes, but they don’t see.They have ears, but they don’t hear.
They are both stupid and foolish,instructed by worthless idolsmade of wood!
This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.
The Lord also said to me: “Take the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
But everyone who hears these words of Mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Five of them were foolish and five were sensible.
When the foolish took their lamps, they didn’t take olive oil with them.
But the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’
Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living.
I am obligated both to Greeks and barbarians, both to the wise and the foolish.
Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?
Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.
No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.
Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
You foolish Galatians! Who has hypnotized you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified?
Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?
Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.
So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.
But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?
For it is God’s will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.
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- Absurd (4 instances)
- Extravagant (2 instances)
- Foolish (271 instances)
- Frivolous (4 instances)
- Idle (44 instances)
- Improper (9 instances)
- Inconsistent (5 instances)
- Insensate (1 instance)
- Irrational (9 instances)
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