'Foolishness' in the Bible

Then someone reported to David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”“Lord,” David pleaded, “please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

If God puts no trust in His servantsand He charges His angels with foolishness,

My wounds are foul and festeringbecause of my foolishness.

God, You know my foolishness,and my guilty acts are not hidden from You.

The inexperienced inherit foolishness,but the sensible are crowned with knowledge.

The crown of the wise is their wealth,but the foolishness of fools produces foolishness.

A patient person shows great understanding,but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.

The tongue of the wise makes knowledge attractive,but the mouth of fools blurts out foolishness.

A discerning mind seeks knowledge,but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

Foolishness brings joy to one without sense,but a man with understanding walks a straight path.

Better for a man to meet a bear robbed of her cubsthan a fool in his foolishness.

The one who gives an answer before he listens—this is foolishness and disgrace for him.

A man’s own foolishness leads him astray,yet his heart rages against the Lord.

Foolishness is tangled up in the heart of a youth;the rod of discipline will drive it away from him.

Don’t answer a fool according to his foolishnessor you’ll be like him yourself.

Answer a fool according to his foolishnessor he’ll become wise in his own eyes.

As a dog returns to its vomit,so a fool repeats his foolishness.

Though you grind a foolin a mortar with a pestle along with grain,you will not separate his foolishness from him.

For a fool speaks foolishnessand his mind plots iniquity.He lives in a godless wayand speaks falsely about the Lord.He leaves the hungry emptyand deprives the thirsty of drink.

who destroys the omens of the false prophetsand makes fools of diviners;who confounds the wiseand makes their knowledge foolishness;

adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.

because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;

I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me. Yes, do put up with me.