Psalm 123:4

Looking For God's Favor

³ Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some. ⁴ We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud.

Contempt of the Proud

Amos

David

Job

Job 12:5

For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) -- a fate for those whose feet slip!

Psalm 119:51

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

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said, "What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"

Job 16:4

I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.

Psalm 73:5-9

They are immune to the trouble common to men; they do not suffer as other men do.

Isaiah 32:9

You complacent women, get up and listen to me! You carefree daughters, pay attention to what I say!

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves -- put sackcloth on your waist!

Jeremiah 48:11

"From its earliest days Moab has lived undisturbed. It has never been taken into exile. Its people are like wine allowed to settle undisturbed on its dregs, never poured out from one jar to another. They are like wine which tastes like it always did, whose aroma has remained unchanged.

Jeremiah 48:27

For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel? Did you think that they were nothing but thieves, that you shook your head in contempt every time you talked about them?

Jeremiah 48:29

I have heard how proud the people of Moab are, I know how haughty they are. I have heard how arrogant, proud, and haughty they are, what a high opinion they have of themselves.

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who live in ease in Zion, to those who feel secure on Mount Samaria. They think of themselves as the elite class of the best nation. The family of Israel looks to them for leadership.

Acts 17:21

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

Acts 17:32

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

Acts 26:24

As Paul was saying these things in his defense, Festus exclaimed loudly, "You have lost your mind, Paul! Your great learning is driving you insane!"

1 Corinthians 4:13

when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world's dirt and scum, even now.