Thematic Bible
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Judgments are prepared for scoffers and stripes for the back of fools.
A wise son hears his father's instruction: but a scoffer hears not rebuke.
Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people who are in Jerusalem. Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scoffer is an abomination to men.
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understands.
How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses the habitation of the just. Surely he scorns the scornful: but he gives grace unto the lowly.
A scoffer loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.