96 Bible Verses About Ignorance

And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;

When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;

The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.

I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.

They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.

And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.

The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.

And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.

As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:

Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the Lord, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their ignorance:

And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

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

And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.

And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

When the boughs thereof 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 that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord.

And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I–chabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

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

But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.

But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.

As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath–sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?

A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.

So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth–el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.

He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.