'Madness' in the Bible
Jehovah will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been done long ago.
I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things , and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.