buz denotes treating people, instruction, or valued things with contempt, including neighbors, parents, wisdom, and love.

The attested use consistently concerns contemptuous treatment: the term is used of rejecting wisdom and discipline, slighting a neighbor or parent, dismissing speech or a command, and regarding a person, love, or small beginnings as beneath regard.

1. Treating someone or something with contempt · dominant

   The participle appears in statements about a person who regards a neighbor or a word contemptuously: in Proverbs 11:12 the APB renders the clause "Whoever despises his neighbor," and in Proverbs 13:13 it renders "Whoever despises a word." The same use reaches wisdom and discipline in Proverbs 1:7, a mother in Proverbs 23:22, a thief in Proverbs 6:30, and love offered in exchange for wealth in Song of Songs 8:7.

   Proverbs 11:12Proverbs 13:13Proverbs 1:7Proverbs 23:22Proverbs 6:30Song of Songs 8:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB most often presents the clauses with "despises" or "despised," including contempt for a neighbor, a word, wisdom, a mother, and love. In Proverbs 30:17 it instead presents the verse through "mocks" and "scorns"; The term's precise contribution within that paired wording cannot be isolated.