“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.”
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocen
“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to
And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceivin
Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to d
When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understa
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of
For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. The
Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice o
Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind li
Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel h
Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you a
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migr
For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads,
The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in de
Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold o
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no tr
Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,