Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:63And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and multiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to nought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which thou shalt go in to possess.
Psalms 2:4He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them.
Proverbs 3:34He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace.
Proverbs 10:24That which the wicked feareth, shall come upon him: to the just their desire shall be given.
Proverbs 19:29Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies 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 →