Bible Verses About Scoffing: General references

So runners went with the letters from the king and his officers throughout all Isra'el and Y'hudah. They conveyed the king's order: "People of Isra'el! Turn back to ADONAI, the God of Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov! Then he will return to those of you who remain, who escaped capture by the kings of Ashur.

Don't be like your ancestors, or like your kinsmen who sinned against ADONAI the God of their ancestors, with the result that he allowed them to become an object of horror, as you see.

Don't be stiffnecked now, as your ancestors were. Instead, yield yourselves to ADONAI; enter his sanctuary, which he has made holy forever; and serve ADONAI your God; so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.

For if you turn back to ADONAI, your kinsmen and children will find that those who took them captive will have compassion on them, and they will come back to this land. ADONAI your God is compassionate and merciful; he will not turn his face away from you if you return to him."

So the runners passed from city to city through the territory of Efrayim and M'nasheh, as far as Z'vulun; but the people laughed at them and made fun of them.

But they ridiculed God's messengers, treating his words with contempt and scoffing at his prophets, until the anger of ADONAI rose up against his people to the extent that there was no longer any remedy.

"Yet to God they said, 'Leave us alone! We don't want to know about your ways.

What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What do we gain if we pray to him?'

"Is there a man like Iyov, who drinks in scoffing like water,

How blessed are those who reject the advice of the wicked, don't stand on the way of sinners or sit where scoffers sit!

My tears are my food, day and night, while all day people ask me, "Where is your God?"

My adversaries' taunts make me feel as if my bones were crushed, as they ask me all day long, 'Where is your God?'"

Then they ask, "How does God know? Does the Most High really have knowledge?"

Yes, they spoke against God by asking, "Can God spread a table in the desert?

True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, until the vadis overflowed; but what about bread? Can he give that? Can he provide meat for his people?"

because they defied God's word, scorned the counsel of the Most High.

So he humbled their hearts by hard labor; when they stumbled, no one came to their aid.

"How long, you whose lives have no purpose, will you love thoughtless living? How long will scorners find pleasure in mocking? How long will fools hate knowledge?

but instead you neglected my counsel and would not accept my reproof;

The scornful he scorns, but gives grace to the humble.

If you are wise, your wisdom helps you; but if you scoff, you bear the consequences alone."

A son who heeds his father's discipline is wise, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge comes easily to someone with discernment.

Guilt offerings make a mockery of fools; but among the upright there is good will.

Judgments are in store for scorners and blows for the backs of fools.