"stupidity" | English Standard Version

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Ps 92:6 The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:Jer 10:8 They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!Job 18:3 Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?Pr 30:2 Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.Job 11:12 But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man!Pr 12:1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.Ps 49:10 For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.Jer 10:14 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.Jer 51:17 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.Jer 10:21 For the shepherds are stupid and do not inquire of the Lord; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.Jer 4:22 “For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”Isa 19:11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?Mr 7:22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.Ro 1:31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.Pr 17:16 Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?Pr 7:7 and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,Ps 94:8 Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?Pr 1:32 For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them;Pr 9:13 The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.Ho 4:11 whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.2Ti 3:9 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.Pr 5:23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.Pr 8:5 O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.Ps 38:5 My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,Pr 14:18 The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.Pr 24:9 The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.Job 5:2 Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.Pr 15:21 Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.Pr 27:22 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.Pr 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.Pr 17:18 One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.Pr 9:4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks sense she says,Ec 10:15 The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.Ps 73:7 Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.Pr 22:3 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.Pr 27:12 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.Ec 10:3 Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.Ps 49:13 This is the path of those who have foolish confidence; yet after them people approve of their boasts.Pr 9:16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who lacks sense she says,1Co 1:21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.Pr 27:3 A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.Ps 55:11 ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.Ec 9:11 Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.Ec 10:6 folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place.Pr 28:26 Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.1Co 1:25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.Pr 13:10 By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.2Th 2:10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.Ec 7:7 Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.Pr 19:2 Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.Pr 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.1Ti 6:5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.Ro 3:16 in their paths are ruin and misery,Ga 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,Pr 18:2 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.Pr 14:24 The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly.Ec 4:5 The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.Ec 10:18 Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.Ec 10:1 Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.Jas 3:15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.Pr 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.Ro 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,2Co 11:19 For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves!Job 39:15 forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.Pr 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.1Co 3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.Ec 10:13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is evil madness.1Co 13:5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;Pr 13:16 Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.Pr 3:35 The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.1Co 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”Ro 11:8 as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”Pr 19:10 It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.Pr 4:19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.Pr 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.Ec 9:3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.Ec 2:14 The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.1Ti 4:2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,Ec 2:15 Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.Pr 18:6 A fool’s lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.Mt 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.Pr 26:6 Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.2Pe 2:12 But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,Ec 5:8 If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.Pr 14:15 The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.2Co 6:5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;1Co 15:34 Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.Pr 16:22 Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.Pr 10:23 Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.Pr 26:11 Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.Pr 26:7 Like a lame man’s legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.Pr 24:30 I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,Pr 13:15 Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.Pr 12:16 The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.Isa 59:14 Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.Pr 14:16 One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.Jud 1:10 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.Pr 21:16 One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.Ec 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.Ec 2:13 Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.

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Ps 92:6 Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,Jer 10:8 They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.Job 18:3 Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?Pr 30:2 Surely I am only a brute, not a man; I do not have human understanding.Job 11:12 But the witless can no more become wise than a wild donkey’s colt can be born human.Pr 12:1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.Ps 49:10 For all can see that the wise die, that the foolish and the senseless also perish, leaving their wealth to others.Jer 10:14 Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.Jer 51:17 ‘Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.Jer 10:21 The shepherds are senseless and do not enquire of the Lord; so they do not prosper and all their flock is scattered.Jer 4:22 ‘My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.’Isa 19:11 The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; the wise counsellors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, ‘I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings’?Mr 7:22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.Ro 1:31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.Pr 17:16 Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?Pr 7:7 I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense.Ps 94:8 Take notice, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?Pr 1:32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;Pr 9:13 Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing.Ho 4:11 to prostitution; old wine and new wine take away their understanding.2Ti 3:9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.Pr 5:23 For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.Pr 8:5 You who are simple, gain prudence; you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.Ps 38:5 My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.Pr 14:18 The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.Pr 24:9 The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.Job 5:2 Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.Pr 15:21 Folly brings joy to one who has no sense, but whoever has understanding keeps a straight course.Pr 27:22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.Pr 24:7 Wisdom is too high for fools; in the assembly at the gate they must not open their mouths.Pr 17:18 One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for a neighbour.Pr 9:4 ‘Let all who are simple come to my house!’ To those who have no sense she says,Ec 10:15 The toil of fools wearies them; they do not know the way to town.Ps 73:7 From their callous hearts comes iniquity; their evil imaginations have no limits.Pr 22:3 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.Pr 27:12 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.Ec 10:3 Even as fools walk along the road, they lack sense and show everyone how stupid they are.Ps 49:13 This is the fate of those who trust in themselves, and of their followers, who approve their sayings.Pr 9:16 ‘Let all who are simple come to my house!’ To those who have no sense she says,1Co 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.Pr 27:3 Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.Ps 55:11 Destructive forces are at work in the city; threats and lies never leave its streets.Ec 9:11 I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favour to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.Ec 10:6 fools are put in many high positions, while the rich occupy the low ones.Pr 28:26 Those who trust in themselves are fools, but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe.1Co 1:25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.Pr 13:10 Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.2Th 2:10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.Ec 7:7 Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.Pr 19:2 Desire without knowledge is not good – how much more will hasty feet miss the way!Pr 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception.1Ti 6:5 and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.Ro 3:16 ruin and misery mark their ways,Ga 5:20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factionsPr 18:2 Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.Pr 14:24 The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly.Ec 4:5 Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.Ec 10:18 Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks.Ec 10:1 As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honour.Jas 3:15 Such ‘wisdom’ does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.Pr 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.Ro 1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools2Co 11:19 You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise!Job 39:15 unmindful that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them.Pr 12:15 The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.1Co 3:18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become ‘fools’ so that you may become wise.Ec 10:13 At the beginning their words are folly; at the end they are wicked madness –1Co 13:5 It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.Pr 13:16 All who are prudent act with knowledge, but fools expose their folly.Pr 3:35 The wise inherit honour, but fools get only shame.1Co 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: ‘He catches the wise in their craftiness’;Ro 11:8 as it is written: ‘God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day.’Pr 19:10 It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury – how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!Pr 4:19 But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.Pr 26:16 A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who answer discreetly.Ec 9:3 This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.Ec 2:14 The wise have eyes in their heads, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realise that the same fate overtakes them both.1Ti 4:2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.Ec 2:15 Then I said to myself, ‘The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise?’ I said to myself, ‘This too is meaningless.’Pr 18:6 The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.Mt 18:6 ‘If anyone causes one of these little ones – those who believe in me – to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung round their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.Pr 26:6 Sending a message by the hands of a fool is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking poison.2Pe 2:12 But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.Ec 5:8 If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.Pr 14:15 The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps.2Co 6:5 in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;1Co 15:34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God – I say this to your shame.Pr 16:22 Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent, but folly brings punishment to fools.Pr 10:23 A fool finds pleasure in wicked schemes, but a person of understanding delights in wisdom.Pr 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.Pr 26:7 Like the useless legs of one who is lame is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.Pr 24:30 I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;Pr 13:15 Good judgment wins favour, but the way of the unfaithful leads to their destruction.Pr 12:16 Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult.Isa 59:14 So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.Pr 14:16 The wise fear the Lord and shun evil, but a fool is hotheaded and yet feels secure.Jud 1:10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct – as irrational animals do – will destroy them.Pr 21:16 Whoever strays from the path of prudence comes to rest in the company of the dead.Ec 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.Ec 2:13 I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness.

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Ps 92:6 Here is something that people without sense don’t know. Here is what foolish people don’t understand.Jer 10:8 All of them are foolish. They don’t have any sense. They think they are taught by worthless wooden gods.Job 18:3 Why do you look at us as if we were cattle? Why do you think of us as being stupid?Pr 30:2 Surely I am only a dumb animal and not a man. I don’t understand as other men do.Job 11:12 A wild donkey’s colt can’t be born a human being. And it’s just as impossible that a person without sense can become wise.Pr 12:1 Anyone who loves correction loves knowledge. Anyone who hates to be corrected is stupid.Ps 49:10 Everyone can see that even wise people die. People who are foolish and who have no sense also pass away. All of them leave their wealth to others.Jer 10:14 No one has any sense or knows anything at all. Everyone who works with gold is put to shame by his gods. The metal gods he has made are fakes. They can’t even breathe.Jer 51:17 ‘No one has any sense. No one knows anything. Everyone who works with gold is put to shame by his wooden gods. His metal gods are fakes. They can’t even breathe.Jer 10:21 The leaders of my people are like shepherds who don’t have any sense. They don’t ask the LORD for advice. That’s why they don’t succeed. And that’s why their whole flock is scattered like sheep.Jer 4:22 The LORD says, ‘My people are foolish. They do not know me. They are children who do not have any sense. They have no understanding at all. They are skilled in doing what is evil. They do not know how to do what is good.’Isa 19:11 The officials of the city of Zoan are very foolish. Pharaoh’s wise men give advice that doesn’t make any sense. How can they dare to say to Pharaoh, ‘We’re among the wise men’? How can they say to him, ‘We’re like the advisers to the kings of long ago’?Mr 7:22 Adultery, greed, hate and cheating come from a person’s heart too. So do desires that are not pure, and wanting what belongs to others. And so do telling lies about others and being proud and being foolish.Ro 1:31 They do not understand. They can’t be trusted. They are not loving and kind.Pr 17:16 Why should a foolish person try to buy wisdom? They are not even able to understand it.Pr 7:7 Among those who were childish I saw a young man who had no sense.Ps 94:8 You who aren’t wise, pay attention. You foolish people, when will you become wise?Pr 1:32 ‘The wrong path that childish people take will kill them. Foolish people will be destroyed by being satisfied with the way they live.Pr 9:13 The woman called Foolishness is wild. She is childish and knows nothing.Ho 4:11 with prostitutes. They drink old wine and fresh wine. Their drinking has destroyed their ability to understand.2Ti 3:9 They won’t get very far. Just like Jannes and Jambres, their foolish ways will be clear to everyone.Pr 5:23 They will die because they refused to be corrected. Their sins will capture them because they were very foolish.Pr 8:5 You who are childish, get some good sense. You who are foolish, set your hearts on getting it.Ps 38:5 My wounds are ugly. They stink. I’ve been foolish. I have sinned.Pr 14:18 Childish people act in keeping with their foolish ways. But knowledge makes wise people feel like kings.Pr 24:9 Foolish plans are sinful. People hate those who make fun of others.Job 5:2 Anger kills foolish people. Jealousy destroys those who are childish.Pr 15:21 A person who has no sense enjoys doing foolish things. But a person who has understanding walks straight ahead.Pr 27:22 Suppose you could grind a foolish person in a mill. Suppose you could grind them as you would grind corn with a tool. Even then you could not remove their foolishness from them.Pr 24:7 Wisdom is too high for foolish people. They shouldn’t speak when people meet at the city gate to conduct business.Pr 17:18 A person who has no sense agrees to pay what other people owe. It isn’t wise to promise to pay other people’s bills.Pr 9:4 She says, ‘Let all who are childish come to my house!’ She speaks to those who have no sense. She says,Ec 10:15 The work foolish people do makes them tired. They don’t even know the way to town.Ps 73:7 Many sins come out of their hard and stubborn hearts. There is no limit to the evil things they can think up.Pr 22:3 Wise people see danger and go to a safe place. But childish people keep going and suffer for it.Pr 27:12 Wise people see danger and go to a safe place. But childish people keep on going and suffer for it.Ec 10:3 Foolish people don’t have any sense at all. They show everyone they are foolish. They do it even when they are walking along the road.Ps 49:13 That’s what happens to those who trust in themselves. It also happens to their followers, who agree with what they say.Pr 9:16 ‘Let all who are childish come to my house!’ She speaks to those who have no sense.1Co 1:21 God wisely planned that the world would not know him through its own wisdom. It pleased God to use the foolish things we preach to save those who believe.Pr 27:3 Stones are heavy, and sand weighs a lot. But letting a foolish person make you angry is a heavier load than both of them.Ps 55:11 Forces that destroy are at work inside it. Its streets are full of people who cheat others and take advantage of them.Ec 9:11 Here’s something else I’ve seen on this earth. Races aren’t always won by those who run fast. Battles aren’t always won by those who are strong. Wise people don’t always have plenty of food. Clever people aren’t always wealthy. Those who have learned a lot aren’t always successful. God controls the timing of every event. He also controls how things turn out.Ec 10:6 Foolish people are given many important jobs. Rich people are given unimportant ones.Pr 28:26 Those who trust in themselves are foolish. But those who live wisely are kept safe.1Co 1:25 The foolish things of God are wiser than human wisdom. The weakness of God is stronger than human strength.Pr 13:10 Where there is arguing, there is pride. But those who take advice are wise.2Th 2:10 So people who are dying will be fooled by this evil. These people are dying because they refuse to love the truth. The truth would save them.Ec 7:7 When a wise person takes wealth by force, they become foolish. It is sinful to take money from people who want special favours.Pr 19:2 Getting excited about something without knowledge isn’t good. It’s even worse to be in a hurry and miss the way.Pr 14:8 People are wise and understanding when they think about the way they live. But people are foolish when their foolish ways trick them.1Ti 6:5 It stirs up trouble all the time among people whose minds are twisted by sin. The truth they once had has been taken away from them. They think they can get rich by being godly.Ro 3:16 They leave a trail of harmful actions.Ga 5:20 It includes worshipping statues of gods and worshipping evil powers. It also includes hatred and fighting, jealousy and fits of anger. Sinful desire is interested only in getting ahead. It stirs up trouble. It separates people into their own little groups.Pr 18:2 Foolish people don’t want to understand. They take delight in saying only what they think.Pr 14:24 The wealth of wise people is their crown. But the foolish ways of foolish people lead to what is foolish.Ec 4:5 Foolish people fold their hands and don’t work. And that destroys them.Ec 10:18 When a person won’t work, the roof falls down. Because of hands that aren’t busy, the house leaks.Ec 10:1 Dead flies give perfume a bad smell. And a little foolishness can make a lot of wisdom useless.Jas 3:15 Wisdom like this doesn’t come down from heaven. It belongs to the earth. It doesn’t come from the Holy Spirit. It comes from the devil.Pr 16:18 If you are proud, you will be destroyed. If you are proud, you will fall.Ro 1:22 They claimed to be wise. But they made fools of themselves.2Co 11:19 You are so wise! You gladly put up with fools!Job 39:15 They do not know that something might step on them. A wild animal might walk all over them.Pr 12:15 The way of foolish people seems right to them. But those who are wise listen to advice.1Co 3:18 Don’t fool yourselves. Suppose some of you think you are wise by the standards of the world. Then you should become ‘fools’ so that you can become wise.Ec 10:13 At first what they say is foolish. In the end their words are very evil.1Co 13:5 It does not dishonour other people. It does not look out for its own interests. It does not easily become angry. It does not keep track of other people’s wrongs.Pr 13:16 Wise people act with knowledge. But foolish people show how foolish they are.Pr 3:35 Wise people receive honour. But foolish people get only shame.1Co 3:19 The wisdom of this world is foolish in God’s eyes. It is written, ‘God catches wise people in their own evil plans.’Ro 11:8 It is written, ‘God made it hard for them to understand. He gave them eyes that could not see. He gave them ears that could not hear. And they are still like that today.’Pr 19:10 It isn’t proper for a foolish person to live in great comfort. And it is much worse when a slave rules over princes!Pr 4:19 But the way of those who do what is wrong is like deep darkness. They don’t know what makes them trip and fall.Pr 26:16 A person who doesn’t want to work is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who give careful answers.Ec 9:3 Here’s what is so bad about everything that happens on this earth. Death catches up with all of us. Also, the hearts of people are full of evil. They live in foolish pleasure. After that, they join those who have already died.Ec 2:14 The eyes of a wise person see things clearly. A person who is foolish lives in darkness. But I finally realised that death catches up with both of them.1Ti 4:2 Teachings like those come from liars who pretend to be what they are not. Their sense of what is right and wrong has been destroyed. It’s as though it has been burned with a hot iron.Ec 2:15 Then I said to myself, ‘What happens to a foolish person will catch up with me too. So what do I gain by being wise?’ I said to myself, ‘That doesn’t have any meaning either.’Pr 18:6 What foolish people say leads to arguing. They are just asking for a beating.Mt 18:6 ‘What if someone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin? If they do, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and be drowned at the bottom of the sea.Pr 26:6 Sending a message in the hand of a foolish person is like cutting off your feet or drinking poison.2Pe 2:12 These people speak evil about things they don’t understand. They are like wild animals who can’t think. Instead, they do what comes naturally to them. They are born only to be caught and destroyed. Just like animals, these people too will die.Ec 5:8 Suppose you see poor people being ill-treated somewhere. And what is being done to them isn’t right or fair. Don’t be surprised by that. One official is watched by a higher one. Officials who are even higher are watching both of them.Pr 14:15 A childish person believes anything. But a wise person thinks about how they live.2Co 6:5 We don’t give up when we are beaten or put in prison. When people stir up trouble in the streets, we continue to serve God. We work hard for him. We go without sleep and food.1Co 15:34 You should come back to your senses and stop sinning. Some of you don’t know anything about God. I say this to make you ashamed.Pr 16:22 Understanding is like a fountain of life to those who have it. But foolish people are punished for the foolish things they do.Pr 10:23 A foolish person finds pleasure in evil plans. But a person who has understanding takes delight in wisdom.Pr 26:11 Foolish people who do the same foolish things again are like a dog that returns to where it has thrown up.Pr 26:7 A proverb in the mouth of a foolish person is like disabled legs that are useless.Pr 24:30 I went past the field of someone who didn’t want to work. I went past the vineyard of someone who didn’t have any sense.Pr 13:15 Good judgment wins favour. But the way of liars leads to their ruin.Pr 12:16 Foolish people are easily upset. But wise people pay no attention to hurtful words.Isa 59:14 So people stop others from doing what is fair. They keep them from doing what is right. No one tells the truth in court anymore. No one is honest there.Pr 14:16 A wise person has respect for the LORD and avoids evil. But a foolish person has a bad temper and yet feels secure.Jud 1:10 But these people say evil things against whatever they don’t understand. And the very things they do understand will destroy them. That’s because they are like wild animals that can’t think for themselves. Instead, they do what comes naturally to them.Pr 21:16 Whoever leaves the path of understanding ends up with those who are dead.Ec 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war. But one sinner destroys a lot of good.Ec 2:13 I saw that wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness.