Proverbs 1:27

When sudden calamity rushes upon you, and your demise advances like a tempest, when tribulation and anguish overcome you,

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In The King James Version

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

In Context

26Similarly, I will ridicule you at your demise, and I will mock you, when that which you feared shall overcome you.

28then they will call to me, and I will not heed, they will arise in the morning, and not find me.

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Cross References

Psalms 58:9And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing.

Proverbs 3:25Do not fear unexpected terror, nor the power of the impious falling upon you.

Proverbs 10:25Like a passing tempest, so the impious one will be no more. But the just one is like an everlasting foundation.

Jeremiah 23:19Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord’s indignation will go forth, and a tempest will break out; it will overwhelm the head of the impious.

Luke 21:23Then woe to those who are pregnant or nursing in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land and great wrath upon this people.

Romans 2:9Tribulation and anguish are upon every soul of man that works evil: the Jew first, and also the Greek.

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 →

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