Words of Wisdom
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Proverbs 1:22, 23
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Proverbs 3:34
He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Proverbs 9:7, 8
A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. Proverbs 13:1
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. Proverbs 14:6
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise. Proverbs 15:12
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge. Proverbs 19:25
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. Proverbs 19:29
When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. Proverbs 21:11
Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath. Proverbs 21:24
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease. Proverbs 22:10
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. Proverbs 24:9
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Isaiah 29:20, 21
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. Hosea 7:5
