Bible Verses About Scoffing

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

The proud and haughty man, “scoffer” is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;

Who say, “Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of the LORD of Hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

Behold, they tell me, Where is the LORD’s word? let it come now.

then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Yochanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: the LORD our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to live there;

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her, The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations.

Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? for they say, the LORD doesn’t see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, ‘the LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD doesn’t see.’

He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

who say, The time is not near to build houses: this is the cauldron, and we are the meat.

Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in Eretz-Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?

Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.

On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”

But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”