Verses with the word foolish in the Apocrypha (17 verses):
2 Esdras 4:19
I answered and said, Verily it is a foolish thought that they both have devised, for the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea also hath his place to bear his floods.
2 Esdras 10:6
Thou foolish woman above all other, seest thou not our mourning, and what happeneth unto us?
Wisdom of Solomon 3:12
Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked:
Wisdom of Solomon 11:15
But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, wherewith being deceived they worshipped serpents void of reason, and vile beasts, thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance;
Wisdom of Solomon 15:14
And all the enemies of thy people, that hold them in subjection, are most foolish, and are more miserable than very babes.
Wisdom of Solomon 19:3
For whilst they were yet mourning and making lamentation at the graves of the dead, they added another foolish device, and pursued them as fugitives, whom they had intreated to be gone.
Sirach 4:27
Make not thyself an underling to a foolish man; neither accept the person of the mighty.
Sirach 15:7
But foolish men shall not attain unto her, and sinners shall not see her.
Sirach 16:23
He that wanteth understanding will think upon vain things: and a foolish man erring imagineth follies.
Sirach 21:22
A foolish man's foot is soon in his [neighbour's] house: but a man of experience is ashamed of him.
Sirach 22:3
An evilnurtured man is the dishonour of his father that begat him: and a [foolish] daughter is born to his loss.
Sirach 22:23
Be faithful to thy neighbour in his poverty, that thou mayest rejoice in his prosperity: abide stedfast unto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest be heir with him in his heritage: for a mean estate is not always to be contemned: nor the rich that is foolish to be had in admiration.
Sirach 33:5
The heart of the foolish is like a cartwheel; and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree.
Sirach 42:8
Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: thus shalt thou be truly learned, and approved of all men living.
Sirach 50:26
They that sit upon the mountain of Samaria, and they that dwell among the Philistines, and that foolish people that dwell in Sichem.
2 Maccabees 2:32
Here then will we begin the story: only adding thus much to that which hath been said, that it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.
2 Maccabees 14:5
Howbeit having gotten opportunity to further his foolish enterprize, and being called into counsel by Demetrius, and asked how the Jews stood affected, and what they intended, he answered thereunto:
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