Quotes About Foolishness

How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.

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

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

A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?

But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.

He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.

For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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