Surely He scorns the scorners, but He gives grace to the lowly.

If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself, and if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

So then do not be mockers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of Hosts that an annihilation is decreed upon the whole earth.

For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is destroyed, and all who look after iniquity are cut off;

Beware therefore, that what has been spoken in the Prophets may not come upon you:

Behold, you despisers, marvel and perish. For I work a work in your days, a work which you will by no means believe, though one were to declare it to you.

knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,

For of this they are willfully ignorant: that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,

But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same Word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

In an instant he goes after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool goes to correction in fetters;

Wisdom is found in the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks heart.

A reproof enters more into a wise man than a thousand stripes into a fool.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

For whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and whips every son whom He receives.