Proverbs 1:27

When panic rains down on you like a storm, when trouble hits you like a whirlwind, when sorrow and pain come on 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

26So I'll laugh at you when you're in trouble; I'll mock you when you're in a panic.

28then you'll call out to me for help, but I won't answer; you'll search hard for me, but won't find me.

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Cross References

Psalms 58:9Before the cooking pot is hot from burning thorns, whether fresh or dry, God will blow them away.

Proverbs 3:25You won't be afraid of a sudden panic, or of disasters that hit the wicked,

Proverbs 10:25When the storm hits, the wicked are no more, but the good are safe and secure forever.

Jeremiah 23:19Watch out! The Lord has sent out a furious storm, a tornado swirling around the heads of the wicked.

Luke 21:23How hard it will be for those who are pregnant or nursing babies at that time! For terrible trouble is coming on the land and punishment against this people.

Romans 2:9Everyone who does evil will have trouble and suffering—the Jewish people first, and the foreigners too.

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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