Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
In Context
25but ye have made all my counsel void, and want none of my reproof,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:63And it shall come to pass, that, as LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. And ye shall be plucked from off the land where thou go in to
Psalms 2:4He who sits in the heavens will laugh. LORD will have them in derision.
Proverbs 3:34Surely the Lord is opposed to the arrogant (LXX/NT), but he gives grace to the lowly.
Proverbs 10:24The fear of a wicked man shall come upon him. And the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Proverbs 19:29Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and stripes for the back of fools.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:21-33
Wisdom's Exhortations; Doom of Obdurate Sinners. 20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have… Read the whole commentary →