8 Bible Verses about Disdain

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1 Samuel 17:42

When the Philistine looked around and saw David, he derided and disparaged him because he was [just] a young man, with a ruddy complexion, and a handsome appearance.

Job 30:1

“But now those younger than I mock and laugh at me,
Whose fathers I refused to put with the sheepdogs of my flock.

Psalm 22:24


For He has not despised nor detested the suffering of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from him;
But when he cried to Him for help, He listened.

Psalm 69:10-11


When I wept and humbled myself with fasting,
It became my reproach.

When I made sackcloth my clothing [as one in mourning],
I became a byword [a mere object of scorn] to them.

Psalm 74:10


O God, how long will the adversary scoff?
Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

Isaiah 57:4


“Of whom do you make fun?
Against whom do you open wide your mouth
And stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of rebellion (sin),
Offspring of deceit,

Jeremiah 10:5


“They are like scarecrows in a cucumber field;
They cannot speak;
They have to be carried,
Because they cannot walk!
Do not be afraid of them,
For they can do no harm or evil,
Nor can they do any good.”

Jeremiah 49:17

“Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who goes by it will be astonished and shall hiss [scornfully] at all its plagues and disasters.

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