'Scoff' in the Bible

And he goeth up thence to Beth-El, and he is going up in the way, and little youths have come out from the city, and scoff at him, and say to him, 'Go up, bald-head! go up, bald-head!'

“Shall your boasts silence men?And shall you scoff and none rebuke?

My friends scoff at meas I weep before God.

Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

Their ways always seem prosperous. Your judgments are on high, far away from them. They scoff at all their enemies.

But You, O Lord, laugh at them;You scoff at all the nations.

They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.

O God, how long will the adversary scoff?Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. Yet I do not turn aside from your law.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,And if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

And now you must not scoff, or your bonds will be strong, for I have heard from the Lord, Yahweh of hosts: complete destruction decreed upon all the land.

I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and scoff because of all its wounds.

“Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be horrified and scoff because of all her wounds.

Because of the Lord’s wrath,she will not be inhabited;she will become a desolation, every bit of her.Everyone who passes through Babylonwill be horrifiedand scoff because of all her wounds.

Those who are both near and far away from you will scoff at you, because your reputation will be infamous and full of turmoil.

And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were sneering and ridiculing Him.

Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, "We will hear you again about this."

and especially those who indulge in the corrupt passions of the sin nature, and despise authority.Presumptuous and reckless, self-willed and arrogant [creatures, despising the majesty of the Lord], they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,

First, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, living according to their own desires,

Nevertheless in the same way, these dreamers [who are dreaming that God will not punish them] also defile the body, and reject [legitimate] authority, and revile and mock angelic majesties.

But these men sneer at anything which they do not understand; and whatever they do know by [mere] instinct, like unreasoning and irrational beasts—by these things they are destroyed.