For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;
For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.
What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.
He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.
Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?
You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.
If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.
How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.
Then Delilah said to Samson, See, you have been making sport of me with false words; now, say truly how may you be put in bands?
Then Delilah said to Samson, Up to now you have made sport of me with false words; now say truly, how may you be put in bands? And he said to her, If you get the seven twists of my hair worked into the cloth you are making and fixed with the pin, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.
And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.
Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars.
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and about three thousand men and women were on the roof, looking on while Samson made sport.
So he came to the men of Succoth and said, Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, on account of whom you made sport of me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand, that we are to give bread to your army who are overcome with weariness?
The Lord has made sport of all my men of war in me, he has got men together against me to send destruction on my young men: the virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of the Lord.
Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.
I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.
For he will be given up to the Gentiles, and will be made sport of and put to shame:
And the men in whose hands Jesus was, made sport of him and gave him blows.
And Herod, with the men of his army, put shame on him and made sport of him, and dressing him in shining robes, he sent him back to Pilate.
And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.
And the men of the army made sport of him, coming to him and giving him bitter wine,
And they will make sport of him, and put shame on him, and give him cruel blows, and will put him to death; and after three days he will come back from the dead.
And when they had made sport of him, they took the purple robe off him and put his clothing on him. And they took him out to put him to death on the cross.
And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days,
And will give him up to the Gentiles to be made sport of and to be whipped and to be put to death on the cross: and the third day he will come back again from the dead.
And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews.
And when they had made sport of him, they took the robe off him, and put his clothing on him, and took him away to put him on the cross.
In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said,
But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.
It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.
So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.
Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.
So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?
The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
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