'Resistance' in the Bible

“Surely there are mockers and mockery with me,And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.

By patience and a calm spirit a ruler may be persuaded,And a soft and gentle tongue breaks the bone [of resistance].

This is the word which the Lord spoke earlier concerning Moab [when Moab’s pride and resistance to God were first known].

“Is not My word like fire [that consumes all that cannot endure the test]?” says the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks the [most stubborn] rock [in pieces]?

You who [self-confidently] rejoice in Lo-debar (Nothing),Who say, “Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim (Strength) for ourselves?”