'Madness' in the Bible
The Lord will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart;
A Psalm of David when he feigned madness before Abimelech, who drove him away and he departed.I will bless the Lord at all times;His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
And I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realized that this also is striving after wind.
I said of laughter, “It is madness,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
So I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly; for what will the man do who will come after the king except what has already been done?
I directed my mind to know, to investigate and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of folly and the foolishness of madness.
the beginning of his talking is folly and the end of it is wicked madness.
In that day,” declares the Lord, “I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness. But I will watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.