'Foolish' in the Bible

So Aaron said to Moses, "Please, my lord, please do not put on us [this] sin [in] which we were foolish and [in] which we have sinned.

[Like] this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and {unwise} people? [Has] he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you.

They annoyed me with [what is] not a god; they provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with [those] not a people, with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

Then Jehu came out to the officers of his master, and they said to him, "Peace? Why did this madman come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the man and his foolish talk."

Then David said to God, "I have sinned severely [in] that I have done this thing. But now, please forgive the sin of your servant, for I have been very foolish."

For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose heart is fully devoted to him. You have been foolish in this, for from now on you will have wars."

So he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

This [is] the journey [of those who] have foolish [confidence], and those after them [who] accept their sayings. Selah

O Yahweh, remember this: [the] enemy taunts, and foolish people treat your name with contempt.

Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember the reproaching of you by [the] foolish {all day long}.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

The {wisest of women} builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her hands.

Leave {the presence of a foolish man}, [for] you will not [come to] know {words of knowledge}.

A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person}, he despises his mother.

A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.

Precious treasure and oil [are] in the house of the wise, but the foolish person will devour them.

[If] a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, then there is rankling and ridicule, but there is no relief.

If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, [put your] hand to [your] mouth.

And who knows [whether] he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will exercise control of all [the fruit of] my toil with which I toiled wisely under the sun. This also [is] vanity!

A poor but wise youth [is] better than an old but foolish king who no longer knows {how to receive advice}.

He begins by saying what is foolish and ends by uttering what is wicked delusion.

Surely the princes of Zoan [are] foolish; the wise of the counselors of Pharaoh [give] senseless counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I myself [am] a son of sages, a {descendant} of ancient kings"?

The princes of Zoan have become foolish; the princes of Memphis are deceived; the leaders of her tribes have led Egypt astray.

who frustrates [the] signs of oracle priests and makes a fool of diviners, who drives [the] wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,

"For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me. They [are] foolish children, and they do not have insight. They [are] skillful at doing evil, and they do not know [how] to do good."

Then I said, "[They are] just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.

Hear this please, foolish and {senseless} people, {who have eyes} but do not see, {who have ears} but do not hear.'

{At the same time} they are stupid and foolish, [in the] instruction of idols, it [is] wood.

A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become foolish. A sword against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Alas, for the foolish prophets who [are] going after their [own] spirit, {and they did not see anything}!

And Yahweh said to me, "Take again the implements of a foolish shepherd.