Psalms 94:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?

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  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.
  • Ps 49:10 : 10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 8:5 : 5 O simple ones, understand wisdom; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.
  • Prov 12:1 : 1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is foolish.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.
  • Jer 8:6-8 : 6 I listened and heard, but they did not speak rightly: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned to his own course, like a horse charging into battle. 7 Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle dove, the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of the LORD. 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Behold, certainly in vain he made it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
  • Rom 3:11 : 11 'There is none who understands, there is none who seeks after God.'
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 6A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.

  • 5O simple ones, understand wisdom; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.

  • 21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:

  • Prov 14:7-8
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    7Leave the presence of a foolish man, when you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

    8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • 22For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 33Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the heart of fools is made known.

  • 9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

  • 24Wisdom is in the sight of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

  • 4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

  • 7Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

  • 22"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • 2A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may express itself.

  • 8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.

  • 9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

  • 6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

  • 16Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no desire for it?

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    28For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them.

    29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

  • 16If now you have understanding, hear this; listen to the voice of my words.

  • 14The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

  • 22Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

  • 3Yes, also, when he that is a fool walks by the way, his wisdom fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

  • 18They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • 17Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

  • 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.

  • 10For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

  • 12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

  • 22Though you pound a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

  • 1The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.

  • Ps 14:1-2
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    1The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

    2The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any who understood and sought God.

  • Jer 8:8-9
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    8How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Behold, certainly in vain he made it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

    9The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

  • 15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who listens to counsel is wise.

  • 20Man that is in honor, and does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.

  • 4I said to the fools, Do not act foolishly; and to the wicked, Do not lift up the horn:

  • 8The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prating fool shall fall.

  • 16Every prudent man deals with knowledge, but a fool lays open his folly.

  • 22So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

  • 9Great men are not always wise, nor do the aged understand judgment.

  • 19For you gladly bear with fools, seeing that you yourselves are wise.

  • 11A fool utters all his mind; but a wise man keeps it in till afterward.

  • 24The crown of the wise is their riches, but the foolishness of fools is folly.

  • 20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

  • 3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: indeed, who does not know such things as these?

  • 15The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he does not know how to go to the city.

  • 34Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man listen to me.