Proverbs 1:27
when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
26in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
Cross References
Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
Proverbs 3:25Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
Jeremiah 23:19Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
Luke 21:23How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
Romans 2:9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the 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 →