And he came to the men of Succoth and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you scoffed at me, saying, Are Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are faint?

But they kept mocking the messengers of God and despising His words and scoffing at His prophets till the wrath of the Lord rose against His people, till there was no remedy or healing.

Should your boastings and babble make men keep silent? And when you mock and scoff, shall no man make you ashamed?

What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing and scorning like water,

You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.

The [uncompromisingly] righteous also shall see [it] and be in reverent fear and awe, but about you they will [scoffingly] laugh, saying,

They scoff, and wickedly utter oppression; they speak loftily [from on high, maliciously and blasphemously].

O God, how long is the adversary to scoff and reproach? Is the enemy to blaspheme and revile Your name forever?

[Earnestly] remember how the enemy has scoffed, O Lord, and reproached You, and how a foolish and impious people has blasphemed Your name.

Arise, O God, plead Your own cause; remember [earnestly] how the foolish and impious man scoffs and reproaches You day after day and all day long.

And return into the bosom of our neighbors sevenfold the taunts with which they have taunted and scoffed at You, O Lord!

Our life is exceedingly filled with the scorning and scoffing of those who are at ease and with the contempt of the proud (irresponsible tyrants who disregard God’s law).

How long, O simple ones [open to evil], will you love being simple? And the scoffers delight in scoffing and [self-confident] fools hate knowledge?

Though He scoffs at the scoffers and scorns the scorners, yet He gives His undeserved favor to the low [in rank], the humble, and the afflicted.

A wise son heeds [and is the fruit of] his father’s instruction and correction, but a scoffer listens not to rebuke.

A scoffer seeks Wisdom in vain [for his very attitude blinds and deafens him to it], but knowledge is easy to him who [being teachable] understands.

Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will increase in knowledge.

A worthless witness scoffs at justice, and the mouth of the wicked swallows iniquity.

Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and stripes for the backs of [self-confident] fools.

When the scoffer is punished, the fool gets a lesson in being wise; but men of [godly] Wisdom and good sense learn by being instructed.

The proud and haughty man—Scoffer is his name—deals and acts with overbearing pride.

Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go out; yes, strife and abuse will cease.

The plans of the foolish and the thought of foolishness are sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to men.

Scoffers set a city afire [inflaming the minds of the people], but wise men turn away wrath.

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem!