Proverbs 1:26
So now, when you are experiencing troubles/disasters, I will laugh at you. When things happen that cause you to be afraid, I will make fun of you.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:63Yahweh was very happy to do good things for you and to cause you to become very numerous, but now he will be happy to ruin you and get rid of you. Those of you who do not die from these plagues will be snatched away from the land that you will soon be entering to possess.
Psalms 2:4But Yahweh, the one who sits on his throne in heaven, laughs at them; he ridicules those rulers.
Proverbs 3:34Yahweh makes fun of those who make fun of others, but he kindly helps those who are humble.
Proverbs 10:24Righteous people will get the good things that they want/desire, but what wicked people are afraid of is what will happen to them.
Proverbs 19:29God is ready to punish those who make fun of him/religion; those who do foolish things deserve to be flogged/whipped.
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 →