'Foolish' in the Bible

And Aaron saith unto Moses, 'O, my lord, I pray thee, lay not upon us sin in which we have been foolish, and in which we have sinned;

To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.

They have made Me zealous by 'no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by 'no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

lo, my daughter, the virgin, and his concubine, let me bring them out, I pray you, and humble ye them, and do to them that which is good in your eyes, and to this man do not this foolish thing.'

And Samuel saith unto Saul, 'Thou hast been foolish; thou hast not kept the command of Jehovah thy God, which He commanded thee, for now had Jehovah established thy kingdom over Israel unto the age;

and David declared, saying, 'Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom;' and David saith, 'Make foolish, I pray Thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.'

for Jehovah -- His eyes go to and fro in all the earth, to show Himself strong for a people whose heart is perfect towards Him; thou hast been foolish concerning this, because -- henceforth there are with thee wars.'

And he saith unto her, 'As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.

Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish.

For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.

Remember this -- an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.

Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

A treasure to be desired, and oil, Is in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.

If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.

If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!

Of laughter I said, 'Foolish!' and of mirth, 'What is this it is doing?'

And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also is vanity.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

The labour of the foolish wearieth him, In that he hath not known to go unto the city.

Foolish have been princes of Zoan, Lifted up have been princes of Noph, And they have caused Egypt to err, The chief of her tribes.

Making void the tokens of devisers, And diviners it maketh mad, Turning the wise backward, And their knowledge it maketh foolish.

For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

And I -- I said, 'Surely these are poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.

And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.

And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.

A sword is on the princes, And they have become foolish; A sword is on her mighty ones, And they have been broken down;

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Woe unto the prophets who are foolish, Who are going after their own spirit, And they have seen nothing.

And Jehovah saith unto me, 'Again take to thee the instrument of a foolish shepherd.