Not really. You have to use someone that is over two hundred years out of date as a " scholar".
Proper Bible scholarship did not exist at that time. There is a very simple test. If a person treats an event that we know did not happen as factual he cannot claim to be a scholar any longer...
According to the "scholar" John Gill - an insult/not that they couldn't read and write. :) oh, wait a minute, that's biased.
and perceived that they were unlearned ignorant men;
not by what they now said, but by what they heard and understood of them before: they were informed that they were...
Also, cursed is wrong. Strong's Hebrew: 7043. קָלַל (qalal) -- to be slight, swift or trifling
3 trifling, i.e. of little account., of person, Genesis 16:4,5 (J; both with בְּעֵינֶיהָ; 1Samuel 2:30 (opposed to אֲכַבֵּד).
2 appear trifling, 1Samuel18:23 (בְּעֵינֵיכֶם; Infinitive subject...