Proverbs 1:27
when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
26I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;
28then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
Cross References
Psalms 58:9Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, they shall be whirled away.
Proverbs 3:25Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the destruction of the wicked, when it cometh;
Proverbs 10:25As a whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no [more]; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Jeremiah 23:19Behold, a tempest of Jehovah, fury is gone forth, yea, a whirling storm: it shall whirl down upon the head of the wicked.
Luke 21:23But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.
Romans 2:9tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works evil, both of Jew first, and of 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 →