Foolish

But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.

Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

This is the fate of the foolish and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.

He who winks the eye causes grief, and foolish lips will come to ruin.

A shrewd man keeps his knowledge to himself, but a foolish heart proclaims its folly.

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

Stay away from a foolish man; you will gain no knowledge from his speech.

A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit yet have seen nothing.

And the LORD said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take along any extra oil.

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

Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

…an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?

Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling.

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.

O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?

For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.