Proverbs 1:27
When cometh as a crashing your dread, and, your calamity, as a storm-wind, overtaketh, when there come upon you, distress and anguish.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
26I also, at your calamity, will laugh, I will mock, when cometh your dread;
28Then, will they call me, but I will not answer, they will seek me diligently, but shall not find me.
Cross References
Psalms 58:9Before your kettles can perceive the [kindled] bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.
Proverbs 3:25Be not thou afraid of sudden dread, nor of the desolation of the lawless, when it cometh.
Proverbs 10:25Like the passing away of a tempest, so the lawless one is not, but, the righteous, [hath] an age-abiding foundation.
Jeremiah 23:19Lo! the tempest of Yahweh! Indignation, hath come forth, Even a tempest whirling along: On the head of the lawless, shall it hurl itself down.
Luke 21:23Alas! for the women with child, and for them who are giving suck, in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land, and anger against this people.
Romans 2:9tribulation and anguish—against every soul of man who worketh out what is base, 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 →