Proverbs 1:26
Similarly, I will ridicule you at your demise, and I will mock you, when that which you feared shall overcome you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
In Context
25You have despised all my counsels, and you have neglected my rebukes.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:63And just as before, when the Lord rejoiced over you, doing good for you and multiplying you, so shall he rejoice, scattering and overturning you, so as to take you away from the land, which you shall enter in order to possess.
Psalms 2:4He who dwells in heaven will ridicule them, and the Lord will mock them.
Proverbs 3:34He will ridicule those who ridicule, but he will bestow grace upon the mild.
Proverbs 10:24What the impious fear will overwhelm them. The just shall be given their desire.
Proverbs 19:29Judgments are prepared for those who ridicule. And striking hammers are prepared for the bodies 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 →