"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

Judgments are prepared for the scoffers, and flogging for the back of fools.

'Look, you scoffers, and be astonished and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work that you would never believe [even] if someone were to tell [it] to you.'"

above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires

for they said to you, "In the end time there will be scoffers following according to their own ungodly desires."