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For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 4)
For in the eight and thirtieth year coming into Egypt, when Ptolemy Evergetes was king, and continuing there a long time, I found there books left, of no small nor contemptible learning. (Ecclesiasticus 0, 4)
Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible. (Obadiah 1, 2)
To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of the Lord is contemptible. (Malachi 1, 7)
And you have profaned it in that you say: The table of the Lord is defiled: and that which is laid thereupon is contemptible with the fire that devoureth it. (Malachi 1, 12)
Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base before all people, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted persons in the law. (Malachi 2, 9)
And the base things of the world, and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen, and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are: (1 Corinthians 1, 28)
(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible,) (2 Corinthians 10, 10)