34 Bible Verses about Foolish People

And now, O Jehovah my God, You have made Your servant king instead of David my father. And I am a little child; I do not know to go out or come in!

Surely I am more like an animal than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man.

So foolish was I, and I did not know; I was like a beast before You.

My wounds have putrefied and rotted, because of my foolishness.

Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

And David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done. And now, I beseech You, O Jehovah, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

And David said to God, I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. But now, I beseech You, remove the iniquity of Your servant for I have done very foolishly.

And Saul said, I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will never do you harm any more, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have greatly erred.

O God, You know my foolishness, and my guiltiness is not hidden from You.

And she answered him, No, my brother, do not humble me. For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Do not do this folly.

And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray You, turn the advice of Ahithophel to foolishness.

I have become foolish boasting. You compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you. For I lacked nothing of the highest apostles, if even I am nothing.

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, do you now perfect yourself in the flesh?

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise.

I would that you were bearing with me a little in foolishness; but indeed bear with me.

Again I say, Let no one think me foolish. If otherwise, yet receive me as foolish, so that I may also boast a little.

What I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting.

Please do not let my lord regard this man of worthlessness, Nabal. For as his name is, so he is. Nabal is his name, and foolishness is with him. And I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

Surely the rulers of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

The rulers of Zoan have become fools, the rulers of Noph are deceived; they have also caused Egypt to go astray, the chief of her tribes.

The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.

and I saw among the simple ones, among the youths, a young man with no understanding,

And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

The foolish ones took their lamps, but took no oil with them.

And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps have gone out.

Fools! Did not He who made the outside also make the inside?

Foolish one! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

I speak according to dishonor, as though we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares (I speak foolishly), I also dare.

For if I desire to boast, I shall not be foolish. For I will speak the truth. But I spare, lest anyone should think of me as being beyond what he sees me, or hears of me;

Do you thus give back to Jehovah, Oh foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

Fools are afflicted because of their rebellion, and because of their iniquities.

They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you."