Quotes About Mockery

A wise son heeds his fatherís discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.

Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.

A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.

Strike a mocker, and the simple will beware; rebuke the discerning man, and he will gain knowledge.

Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; and when a wise man is instructed, he acquires knowledge.

Mocker is the name of the proud and arrogant man—of him who acts with excessive pride.

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.

this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ëThe Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

Whom are you mocking? At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.

you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.

Those near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil.