'Despise' in the Bible
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?
and the sons of worthlessness have said, 'What! this one doth save us!' and they despise him, and have not brought to him a present; and he is as one deaf.
only, because thou hast caused the enemies of Jehovah greatly to despise by this thing, also the son who is born to thee doth surely die.'
And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, 'What is this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'
Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.
Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?
Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof,
They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,
Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
Who doth make thee as a brother to me, Sucking the breasts of my mother? I find thee without, I kiss thee, Yea, they do not despise me,
For in that day despise doth each His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you -- a sin.
Do not despise, for Thy name's sake, Dishonour not the throne of Thine honour, Remember, break not Thy covenant with us.
Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise -- So that they are no more a people before them!