Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
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Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem: "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'"
The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous. Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.