'Scoffers' in the Bible
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers:
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
Surely he scoffeth at the scoffers; But he giveth grace unto the lowly.
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.
Scoffers set a city in a flame; But wise men turn away wrath.
Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:
Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.
On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.