A person whose habitual posture toward truth, authority, and divine warning is contemptuous mockery. Hebrew lets (scoffer, scorner). Proverbs returns repeatedly to the type: Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee (Prov 9:8); A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise (Prov 15:12); Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath (Prov 21:24). 2 Peter 3:3-4 names the eschatological emergence of scoffers: knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? The scoffer is distinguished from the honest doubter or the inquiring simple-minded by his settled disposition of contempt; correction meets mockery, instruction meets sneer, warning meets dismissal. The biblical counsel is not to keep investing in the scoffer's reform but to invest in those who can still receive correction (Prov 9:8).