Proverbs 1:27

When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

26I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.

28Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:

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Cross References

Psalms 58:9Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

Proverbs 3:25Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of the power of the wicked falling upon thee.

Proverbs 10:25As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as an everlasting foundation.

Jeremiah 23:19Behold the whirlwind of the Lord's indignation shall come forth, and a tempest shall break out and come upon the head of the wicked.

Luke 21:23But woe to them that are with child, and give suck in those days; for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

Romans 2:9Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of 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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