Scoffing
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Scoffing’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and…
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but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
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Job 21:14 OT
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
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Job 21:15 OT
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
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Job 34:7 OT
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
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Psalms 1:1 OT
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
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Psalms 42:3 OT
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
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Psalms 42:10 OT
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
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Psalms 73:11 OT
They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
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Psalms 78:19 OT
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
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Psalms 78:20 OT
Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”
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because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
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Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.
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“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
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but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;
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Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
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If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
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A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
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A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
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Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
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Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
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When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
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The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.
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Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.