Proverbs 1:26
So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
In Context
25You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:63And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.
Psalms 2:4Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
Proverbs 3:34He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.
Proverbs 10:24The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.
Proverbs 19:29Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.
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 →