Because, etc
Job 9:23
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
2 Corinthians 8:2
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
contemn
Ezekiel 21:10
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Ezekiel 21:25
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,