Proverbs 1:26
I also laugh in your calamity, || I deride when your fear comes,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
In Context
25And you slight all my counsel, || And you have not desired my reproof.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:63And it has been, as YHWH has rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so YHWH rejoices over you to destroy you and to lay you waste; and you have been pulled away from off the ground to where you are going in to possess it;
Psalms 2:4He who is sitting in the heavens laughs, || The Lord mocks at them.
Proverbs 3:34If He scorns the scorners, || Yet He gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 10:24The feared thing of the wicked meets him, || And the desire of the righteous is given.
Proverbs 19:29Judgments have been 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 →