“And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.”
King James Version (KJV)
18:27 Mocked them - Derided them and their gods, which had now provedthemselves to be ridiculous and contemptible things.