Proverbs 1:26
I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
In Context
25And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:63'And it hath been, as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste; and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it;
Psalms 2:4He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.
Proverbs 3:34If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace.
Proverbs 10:24The feared thing of the wicked it meeteth him, And the desire of the righteous is given.
Proverbs 19:29Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back 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 →