Bible Verses About Scoffing

When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; and when a wise man is instructed, he acquires knowledge.

Mocker is the name of the proud and arrogant man— of him who acts with excessive pride.

Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—

Whom are you mocking? At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,

Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”

Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”

He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’

And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’

“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?

Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons He drives out demons.”

Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.’”

but some of them said, “It is by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons, that He drives out demons.”