Proverbs 1:27
When your fear comes as destruction, || And your calamity comes as a windstorm, || When adversity and distress come on you.
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In Context
26I also laugh in your calamity, || I deride when your fear comes,
28Then they call me, and I do not answer, || They seek me earnestly, and do not find me.
Cross References
Psalms 58:9Before your pots discern the bramble, || As living, He whirls away in His burning anger.
Proverbs 3:25Do not be afraid of sudden fear, || And of the desolation of the wicked when it comes.
Proverbs 10:25As the passing by of a windstorm, || So the wicked is not, || And the righteous is a perpetual foundation.
Jeremiah 23:19Behold, a whirlwind of YHWH—Fury has gone out, even a piercing whirlwind, || It stays on the head of the wicked.
Luke 21:23And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there will be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;
Romans 2:9tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;
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 →