³ When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

¹⁰ Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

¹⁴ If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

² When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

⁴ Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

¹⁶ When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

³ Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

²⁰ Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

⁹ For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

⁴ Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: