'Foolish' in the Bible

Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your creator? He has made you and established you.

Then Samuel said to Saul, "You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed the commandment that the Lord your God gave you. Had you done that, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever!

My lord should not pay attention to this wicked man Nabal. He simply lives up to his name! His name means 'fool,' and he is indeed foolish! But I, your servant, did not see the servants my lord sent.

But she said to him, "No, my brother! Don't humiliate me! This just isn't done in Israel! Don't do this foolish thing!

Now David had been told, "Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, "Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!"

For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins.

O God, you are aware of my foolish sins; my guilt is not hidden from you.

Remember how the enemy hurls insults, O Lord, and how a foolish nation blasphemes your name!

I will listen to what God the Lord says. For he will make peace with his people, his faithful followers. Yet they must not return to their foolish ways.

Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding."

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

Those who are wise store up knowledge, but foolish speech leads to imminent destruction.

The shrewd person conceals knowledge, but foolish people publicize folly.

Every wise woman builds her household, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

Leave the presence of a foolish person, or you will not understand wise counsel.

A person who has a quick temper does foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes is hated.

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.

There is desirable treasure and olive oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish person devours all he has.

A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.

If a wise person goes to court with a foolish person, there is no peace whether he is angry or laughs.

So I decided to discern the benefit of wisdom and knowledge over foolish behavior and ideas; however, I concluded that even this endeavor is like trying to chase the wind!

Next, I decided to consider wisdom, as well as foolish behavior and ideas. For what more can the king's successor do than what the king has already done?

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

At the beginning his words are foolish and at the end his talk is wicked madness,

who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers and humiliates the omen readers, who overturns the counsel of the wise men and makes their advice seem foolish,

The Lord answered, "This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good."

Tell them: 'Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit but have seen nothing!

Again the Lord said to me, "Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Jesus said, "Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

Five of the virgins were foolish, and five were wise.

When the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take extra olive oil with them.

The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.'

He said to them, "Are you so foolish? Don't you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

So he said to them, "You foolish people -- how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, "What does this foolish babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods." (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.

Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting -- all of which are out of character -- but rather thanksgiving.

For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord's will is.

But reject foolish and ignorant controversies, because you know they breed infighting.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.

For God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.