Psalm 123:4

Looking For God's Favor

³ Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt, ⁴ Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!

Contempt of the Proud

Amos

David

Job

Job 12:5

A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

Psalm 119:51

The proud have utterly scorned me, From Thy law I have not turned aside.

Nehemiah 2:19

And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, 'What is this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'

Job 16:4

I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

Psalm 73:5-9

In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

Isaiah 32:9

Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, Daughters, confident ones, give ear to my saying,

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,

Jeremiah 48:11

Secure is Moab from his youth, And at rest is he for his preserved things, And he hath not been emptied out from vessel unto vessel, And into captivity he hath not gone, Therefore hath his taste remained in him, And his fragrance hath not been changed.

Jeremiah 48:27

And was not Israel the derision to thee? Among thieves was he found? For since thy words concerning him, Thou dost bemoan thyself.

Jeremiah 48:29

We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, Exceeding proud! His haughtiness, and his arrogance, And his pride, and the height of his heart,

Amos 6:1

Woe to those secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have the house of Israel.

Acts 17:21

and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.

Acts 17:32

And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, 'We will hear thee again concerning this;'

Acts 26:24

And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, 'Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;'

1 Corinthians 4:13

being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become -- of all things an offscouring -- till now.