Bible Verses About Divine Confusion

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

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

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:

O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

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

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.

Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.