Bible Verses About Scoffing

When a scorner is punished, the simple become wiser; and when the wise is instructed, he takes hold of knowledge.

"Scoffer" is what you call a proud, insolent person who acts with overweening conceit.

Throw the scoffer out, and quarreling goes too; strife and insults cease.

The evil plans of the foolish are sin, and people detest a scorner.

Woe to those who begin by pulling at transgression with a thread, but end by dragging sin along as if with a cart rope.

They say, "We want God to speed up his work, to hurry it along, so we can see it! We want the Holy One of Isra'el's plan to come true right now, so we can be sure of it!"

Therefore, as fire licks up the stubble, and the chaff is consumed in the flame; so their root will rot, and their flowers scatter like dust; because they have rejected the Torah of ADONAI-Tzva'ot, they have despised the word of the Holy One of Isra'el.

This is why ADONAI's anger blazed up against his people, why he stretched out his hand against them and struck them [so hard that] the hills shook, and corpses lay like trash in the streets. Even after all this, his anger remains, his upraised hand still threatens.

Should the axe glorify itself over the one who chops with it? Should the saw magnify itself over the one who moves it? It's as if a stick could wave the hand that raises it up, or as if a wooden staff could lift [a person, who is] not made of wood.

for the tyrant is now nothing, the scoffer is finished, and all alert to do evil are cut off

Whom are you making fun of? At whom are you laughing and sticking out your tongue? Aren't you rebellious children, just a brood of liars?

They keep asking me, "Where is the word of ADONAI? Let it come now."

then 'Azaryah the son of Hosha'yah, Yochanan the son of Kareach and all the men with him had the effrontery to say to Yirmeyahu, "You are lying! ADONAI our God did not send you to say, 'Don't go to Egypt and live there'!

In the days of her affliction and anguish, Yerushalayim remembers all the treasures that were hers, ever since ancient times. Now her people fall into the power of the foe, and she has no one to help her; her enemies are gloating over her, mocking her desolation.

Then he said to me, "Human being, did you see what the leaders of the house of Isra'el are doing in the dark, each one in the room of his own carved image, because they say, 'ADONAI can't see us; ADONAI has left the land.'?"

Then he said to me, "The wickedness of the house of Isra'el and Y'hudah is enormous, the land is full of blood, and the city is full of justice denied; because they say, 'ADONAI has left the land, ADONAI doesn't see.'

He said to me, "Human being, these are the men who make evil plans and give wicked advice in this city.

They say, 'The time hasn't come to build houses. This city is the cooking pot, and we're the meat!'

"Human being, don't you have this proverb in the land of Isra'el, 'Time keeps passing, and none of the visions are fulfilled'?

Yet you say, 'Adonai's way isn't fair!' House of Isra'el, I will judge each of you according to his ways."

"On their king's special day the leaders inflame him with wine, and he joins hands with scorners,

But when the P'rushim heard of it, they said, "It is only by Ba`al-Zibbul" -- the ruler of the demons -- "that this man drives out demons."

The Torah-teachers who came down from Yerushalayim said, "He has Ba`alZibbul in him," and "It is by the ruler of the demons that he expels the demons."

Then Yeshua said to them, "No doubt you will quote to me this proverb -- `"Doctor, cure yourself!" We've heard about all the things that have been going on over in K'far-Nachum; now do them here in your home town!'

But some of them said, “It is by Ba‘al-Zibbul” — the ruler of the demons — “that he expels the demons.”