hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,

'Look, you scoffers, and be astonished and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work that you would never believe [even] if someone were to tell [it] to you.'"

they were not willing [to accept] my counsel, they despised all my reproof.

Do not rebuke a scoffer, lest he hate you; rebuke the wise and he will love you.

"Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls in front of pigs, lest they trample them with their feet, and turn around [and] tear you to pieces.

Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses.

and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust and who despise authority. Bold [and] arrogant, they do not tremble in awe [as they] blaspheme majestic beings,

But I [am] a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.

[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.

"Look, happy [is the] human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done [it].

Do not despise the discipline of Yahweh, my child. Do not be weary of his reproof

And have you completely forgotten the exhortation which instructs you as sons? "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, or give up [when you] are corrected by him.

And if you say to me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' [was it] not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed? And he said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall bow down in the {presence} of this altar.'"