“But now they mock me, those who are younger ¹  than I, whose fathers I disdained too much ²  to put with my sheep dogs. ³ 

When the Philistine looked carefully at David, he despised him, for he was only a ruddy and handsome boy.

There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, ¹  and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully. ² 

Listen to my instruction ¹  so that you may be wise, ²  and do not neglect it.

Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving ¹  and the sounds of laughter and merriment. I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away. ²  I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.

But the thought of striking out against ¹  Mordecai alone was repugnant to him, for he had been informed ²  of the identity of Mordecai’s people. ³  So Haman sought to destroy all the Jews (that is, the people of Mordecai) ⁴  who were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

You made us ¹  an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. ² 

We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. ¹ 

All who pass by ¹  have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

I am disdained by them. ¹  When they see me, they shake their heads. ² 

For the sake of David, your servant, do not reject your chosen king! ¹ 

because ¹  you neglected ²  all my advice, and did not comply ³  with my rebuke,

The one who neglects ¹  discipline ends up in ²  poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored. ³ 

The one who refuses correction despises himself, ¹  but whoever hears ²  reproof acquires understanding. ³ 

He is secure at all times. ¹  He has no regard for your commands; ²  he disdains all his enemies. ³ 

For he did not despise or detest the suffering ¹  of the oppressed; ²  he did not ignore him; ³  when he cried out to him, he responded. ⁴ 

Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; ¹  my neighbors are appalled by my suffering ²  – those who know me are horrified by my condition; ³  those who see me in the street run away from me.

The eye ¹  that mocks at a father and despises obeying ²  a mother – the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it. ³ 

For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced with intense scorn ¹  over the land of Israel,

They turn to Baal; ¹  they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal ²  have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt. ³