8 Bible Verses about Disdain

The Philistine got a good look at David and he despised him. David was only a young man with a healthy complexion and good looks.

Men younger than I am make fun of me now! Their fathers have always been so worthless that I would not let them help dogs guard sheep.

Jehovah has not despised or been disgusted with the plight of the oppressed one. He has not hidden his face from that person. Jehovah heard when that oppressed person cried out to him for help.

When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

How long, God, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

With whom are you effeminate (self-indulgent)? With whom do you open wide your mouth and offer your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood and deceit?

They are like scarecrows in cucumber fields. They cannot speak. They must be carried, for they cannot walk! Do not fear them! For they can do no harm and they can do no good.

Jehovah said: The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified.