Proverbs 1:26

I also, at your calamity, will laugh, I will mock, when cometh your dread;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

In Context

25But ye dismissed all my counsel, and, to my rebuke, would not yield,

27When cometh as a crashing your dread, and, your calamity, as a storm-wind, overtaketh, when there come upon you, distress and anguish.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:63And it shall come to pass that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so, will Yahweh rejoice over you, to cause you to perish and to destroy you,—and ye shall be torn away, from off the soil, whither thou art going in to possess it;

Psalms 2:4He that sitteth in the heavens, will laugh,—My Lord, will mock at them:

Proverbs 3:34Though at scoffers he scoffeth, yet, to the humbled, he granteth favour.

Proverbs 10:24The dread of the lawless one, the same, shall overtake him, but, the desire of the righteous, shall he granted.

Proverbs 19:29Prepared for scoffers, are punishments, and stripes, for the back of dullards.

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 →

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