Proverbs 18:3

¹⁰Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

¹⁴If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

¹⁶When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.

²When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

⁴“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

⁴They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.

²⁰Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

³⁰Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

³Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. ⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

⁹For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.