Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
In Context
25but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:63It will happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.
Psalms 2:4He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
Proverbs 3:34Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 10:24What the wicked fear will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
Proverbs 19:29Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs 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 →