Psalms 94:8

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Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 92:6 : 6 The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.
  • Ps 49:10 : 10 Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was ignorant and lacked insight; I was as senseless as an animal before you.
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 8:5 : 5 You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!
  • Prov 12:1 : 1 The one who loves discipline loves knowledge, but the one who hates reproof is stupid.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
  • Jer 8:6-8 : 6 I have listened to them very carefully, but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says,“I have done wrong!” All of them persist in their own wayward course like a horse charging recklessly into battle. 7 Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. The turtledove, swallow, and crane recognize the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to what I, the LORD, require of them. 8 How can you say,“We are wise! We have the law of the LORD”? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
  • Rom 3:11 : 11 there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 92:6
    84%

    6The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

  • Prov 8:5
    82%

    5You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!

  • Jer 5:21
    78%

    21Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • Prov 14:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7Walk abreast with a foolish person, and you do not understand wise counsel.

    8The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

  • Jer 4:22
    77%

    22The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

  • Prov 14:33
    75%

    33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; it is not known in the inner parts of fools.

  • Ps 94:9
    75%

    9Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?

  • Prov 17:24
    75%

    24Wisdom is directly in front of the discerning person, but the eyes of a fool run to the ends of the earth.

  • Jer 5:4
    74%

    4I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.

  • Ps 94:7
    74%

    7Then they say,“The LORD does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”

  • Prov 1:22
    74%

    22“How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?

  • Prov 26:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him.

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

  • Prov 18:2
    74%

    2A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in disclosing what is on his mind.

  • Jer 10:8
    73%

    8The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

  • Prov 23:9
    73%

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

  • Prov 9:6
    73%

    6Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”

  • Prov 17:16
    73%

    16What’s the point of a fool having money in hand to buy wisdom, when his head is empty?

  • Deut 32:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.

    29I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”

  • Job 34:16
    72%

    16God Is Impartial and Omniscient“If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say.

  • Prov 15:14
    72%

    14The discerning mind seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

  • Prov 16:22
    72%

    22Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.

  • Eccl 10:3
    72%

    3Even when a fool walks along the road he lacks sense, and shows everyone what a fool he is.

  • Isa 44:18
    72%

    18They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

  • Ps 107:17
    72%

    17They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, and suffered because of their sins.

  • 1 Cor 3:19
    72%

    19For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written,“He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

  • Ps 49:10
    72%

    10Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others.

  • Prov 26:12
    72%

    12You have seen a man wise in his own opinion– there is more hope for a fool than for him.

  • Prov 27:22
    72%

    22If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

  • Ps 53:1
    72%

    1For the music director; according to the machalath style; a well-written song by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.

  • Ps 14:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.

    2The LORD looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.

  • Jer 8:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8How can you say,“We are wise! We have the law of the LORD”? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.

    9Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the LORD’s message, what wisdom do they really have?

  • Prov 12:15
    71%

    15The way of a fool is right in his own opinion, but the one who listens to advice is wise.

  • Ps 49:20
    71%

    20Wealthy people do not understand; they are like animals that perish.

  • Ps 75:4
    71%

    4I say to the proud,“Do not be proud,” and to the wicked,“Do not be so confident of victory!

  • Prov 10:8
    71%

    8The wise person accepts instructions, but the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

  • Prov 13:16
    71%

    16Every shrewd person acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.

  • Ps 73:22
    71%

    22I was ignorant and lacked insight; I was as senseless as an animal before you.

  • Job 32:9
    71%

    9It is not the aged who are wise, nor old men who understand what is right.

  • 2 Cor 11:19
    71%

    19For since you are so wise, you put up with fools gladly.

  • Prov 29:11
    71%

    11A fool lets fly with all his temper, but a wise person keeps it back.

  • Prov 14:24
    71%

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

  • 1 Cor 1:20
    71%

    20Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

  • Job 12:3
    71%

    3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

  • Eccl 10:15
    71%

    15The toil of a stupid fool wears him out, because he does not even know the way to the city.

  • Job 34:34
    71%

    34Men of understanding say to me– any wise man listening to me says–