Proverbs 1:27

When your dread cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when trouble and distress come upon you.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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, in your calamity, will laugh, I will mock when your dread cometh;

28Then will they call me, but I will not answer, they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me.

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Cross References

Psalms 58:9(58-10) Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.

Proverbs 3:25Be not afraid of sudden terror, neither of the destruction of the wicked, when it cometh;

Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passeth, the wicked is no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Jeremiah 23:19Behold, a storm of the LORD is gone forth in fury, yea, a whirling storm; it shall whirl upon the head of the wicked.

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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