'Senseless' 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?
Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.
Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.
For one can see that wise men die;foolish and stupid men also pass away.Then they leave their wealth to others.
Then I was senseless and ignorant;I was like a beast before You.
A senseless man has no knowledge,Nor does a stupid man understand this:
Pay heed, you senseless among the people;And when will you understand, stupid ones?
and I noticed among the naive that is, I discerned among the youths a senseless young man.
Stupidity is the delight of the senseless, but an understanding man walks uprightly.
What is this? A fool has enough money to buy wisdom, but is senseless?
A senseless man striketh hands, becoming surety for his neighbour.
I went by the field belonging to a lazy man, by a vineyard belonging to a senseless person.
"Senseless," said I concerning laughter and pleasure, "How practical is this?"
They are but fools, the princes of Zoan, the wise counsellors of Pharaoh: their counsel is become senseless. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.
So the Lord's word to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured.
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!
“Declare among the nations.Lift up a signal [to spread the news]—publish and proclaim it,Do not conceal it; say,‘Babylon has been taken,Bel [the patron god] has been shamed, Marduk (Bel) has been shattered.Babylon’s images have been shamed, her [worthless] idols have been thrown down.’
My people consult their [lifeless] wooden idol, and their [diviner’s] wand gives them oracles.For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray [morally and spiritually],And they have played the prostitute, withdrawing themselves from their God.
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove;they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.
But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with senseless rage [and lacked spiritual insight], and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.
You foolish ones [acting without reflection or intelligence]! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?
And he said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
for it seems to me senseless, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.
For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.
an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth --
But again I ask, didn't Israel understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger."
O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed, crucified among you?
Are ye so senseless? having begun in Spirit, are ye going to be made perfect in flesh?
Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.
For we too once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various sinful desires and pleasures, spending and wasting our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Because so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of senseless men;