Proverbs 21:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ “Scoffer” is the name of the proud, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Proud and haughty scorner is his name, Who dealeth in proud wrath.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ The proud and haughty man–Scoffer is his name–deals and acts with overbearing pride.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name; He worketh in the arrogance of pride.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Incredibly proud—mockers are their name! Their conduct involves excessive pride.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ A proud and arrogant one is also called ignorant, if he, in anger, acts according to pride.

Proverbs 21:24 Cross References

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

Proverbs 19:29

Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was in a furious rage, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the wise men.

Jeremiah 48:29

We have heard of the pride of Moab— he is very proud— of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Moab, how proud he was; of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence— his boasts are false.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 3:34

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.

Proverbs 24:9

The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to men.

Isaiah 29:20

For the ruthless shall come to naught and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,

Habakkuk 2:5

Moreover, wine is treacherous; the arrogant man shall not abide. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations, and collects as his own all peoples.”