Psalm 123:4

Looking For God's Favor

³ Show us favour, O Yahweh, show us favour, for, exceedingly, are we sated with contempt: ⁴ Exceeding sated therewith, is our soul, - The scorn of the careless, The contempt of the proud.

Contempt of the Proud

Amos

David

Job

Job 12:5

For ruin, there is contempt, in the thought of the man at ease, - ready, for such as are of faltering foot!

Psalm 119:51

Insolent men, have derided me exceedingly, From thy law, have I not swerved.

Nehemiah 2:19

But, when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed at us, and poured contempt upon us, - and said, What is this thing which ye would do? against the king, would ye rebel?

Job 16:4

I also, like you, could speak, - If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.

Psalm 73:5-9

Of the toil of weak mortals, have they none, Nor, with the sons of earth, are they hard smitten.

Isaiah 32:9

Ye women in comfort! arise hear my voice, Ye daughters so confident give ear to my speech: -

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, ye women in comfort, Be troubled ye daughters so confident, - Strip! and bare yourselves, and gird some-what on your loins:

Jeremiah 48:11

Moab, hath been at ease from his youth, And settled is he upon his lees, And hath not been poured out from vessel to vessel, Nor into captivity, hath gone, - For this cause, hath his flavour stood still within him, And his scent is unchanged.

Jeremiah 48:27

And was it not, a derision, that Israel became to thee? And was it not among thieves, he was found? For, as often as thou didst speak of him, thou didst wag the head!

Jeremiah 48:29

We have heard the arrogance of Moab - proud exceedingly: His loftiness and his arrogance and his majesty, and his elevation of heart!

Amos 6:1

Alas for the careless in Zion, and for them who put confidence in the mountain of Samaria, - the distinguished among the first group of nations, to whom came in the house of Israel.

Acts 17:21

Now, all Athenians and the sojourning foreigners, unto nothing else, were devoting their leisure, than to be telling or hearing, something newer.

Acts 17:32

Now, when they heard of raising the dead, some, indeed, began to mock, while, others, said - We will hear thee, concerning this, even again.

Acts 26:24

Now, as he was saying these things in his defence, Festus, with a loud voice, saith - Thou art raving, Paul! Thy great learning, is turning thee round unto, raving madness.

1 Corinthians 4:13

Being defamed, we beseech: as the sweepings of the world have we become, the offscouring of all - until even now.