2 Peter 3:3

3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Ver. 3. Scoffers ] Those worst kind of sinners, Psalms 1:1 ; those abjects of the people, Psalms 35:15 ; those pests ( λοιμος ), as the Septuagint render them, LXXE Psalms 1:1 ; those atheists that jeer when they should fear, and put far away the evil day, that make no more matter of God’s direful and dreadful menaces than Leviathan doth of a sword; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear, Job 41:29 . They make children’s play of them, as the word here used importeth, εμπαικται .