'Scoff' in the Bible

“Should your boasts and babble silence men?And shall you scoff and no one put you to shame?

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;They speak loftily [with malice].

O God, how long will the adversary scoff?Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

“They make fun of kingsAnd rulers are a laughing matter to them.They ridicule every strongholdAnd heap up rubble [for earth mounds] and capture it.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were sneering and ridiculing Him.

and especially those who indulge in the corrupt passions of the sin nature, and despise authority.Presumptuous and reckless, self-willed and arrogant [creatures, despising the majesty of the Lord], they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,

Nevertheless in the same way, these dreamers [who are dreaming that God will not punish them] also defile the body, and reject [legitimate] authority, and revile and mock angelic majesties.

But these men sneer at anything which they do not understand; and whatever they do know by [mere] instinct, like unreasoning and irrational beasts—by these things they are destroyed.