Proverbs 1:26
[Therefore] I also will truly laugh at your calamity; I will deride [you] when your terror cometh;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
In Context
25And ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would not accept my admonition:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:63And it shall come to pass, that, as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so will the Lord rejoice over you to bring you to nought, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Psalms 2:4He who dwelleth in the heavens will laugh: the Lord will hold them in derision.
Proverbs 3:34If [it concern] the scornful he will himself render them a scorn; but unto the lowly doth he give grace.
Proverbs 10:24What the wicked dreadeth, that will come upon him: but the longing of the righteous will God grant.
Proverbs 19:29Punishments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back 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 →