Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most high.
是因他们违背神的话语，藐视至高者的旨意。
2
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
爱情众水不能息灭，大水也不能淹没。若有人拿家中所有的财宝要换爱情，就被藐视。
3
She was embarrassed to discover that excitement at the proximity of Mr Clare's breath and eyes, which she had contemned in her companions, was intensified in herself;