'Foolishness' in the Bible
Someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." David said, "Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.
A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"
I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
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