Proverbs 1:27

Euen when the thyng that ye be afraide of falleth in sodenly like a storme, and your miserie lyke a tempest, yea when trouble and heauinesse commeth vpon you.

Bible (Bishops')

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

26Therfore wyll I also laugh at your destruction, and mocke you, when the thyng that ye feare commeth vpon you,

28Then shall they call vpon me, but I wyll not aunswere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:

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Cross References

Proverbs 3:25Let thyne eyes beholde that thyng that is right, and let thyne eye liddes loke straight before thee.

Proverbs 10:25As the tempest, so passeth away the vngodly and is not: but the ryghteous remayneth sure for euer.

Luke 21:23But wo vnto the that are with childe, & to them that geue sucke in those days: For there shalbe great distresse in the lande, and wrath ouer this people.

Romans 2:9Tribulation, and anguishe, vpon euery soule of man that doeth euyll, of the Iewe first, and also of the Greke:

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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