We have had more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud and the contempt of the arrogant.
Parallel translations
- WEB Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
- KJV Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
- BSB We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
- NKJV Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scorn of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.
- NASB Our soul has had much more than enough Of the scoffing of those who are at ease, And of the contempt of the proud.
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Quick answer
Their soul is overwhelmed by the scoffing of the complacent and the contempt of the proud. The pride and mockery of others weighs heavily on God's people.
Overview
The psalmist names the source of their distress: the 'scoffing' of those 'at ease' and the 'contempt of the proud.' The arrogance of the comfortable adds to the suffering of the lowly. Yet the people bring this burden to God, trusting the One who opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 119:51The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
- Job 12:5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
- Acts 17:32Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
- Isa 32:11Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
- 1 Cor 4:13Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
- Job 16:4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
- Jer 48:11“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
- Isa 32:9Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
- Acts 26:24As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
- Neh 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammontite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”
- Amos 6:1Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
- Jer 48:29“We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
- Ps 73:5–9They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
- Acts 17:21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
- Jer 48:27For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
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