Proverbs 1:26
in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
BSB
ASV
I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
KJV
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
When your fear comes as calamity. Saying to one another, If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation (John XI).
Compare the marginal reference. The scorn and derision with which men look on pride and malice, baffled and put to shame, has something that answers to it in the Divine Judgment. It is, however, significant that in the fuller revelation of the mind and will of the Father in the person of the Son no such language meets us. Sadness, sternness, severity, there may be, but, from first to last, no word of mere derision.
Others think that wisdom, as the divine attribute specially employed in acts of counsel and admonition, is here personified, and represents God. In either case the address is a most solemn and divine admonition, whose matter and spirit are eminently evangelical and impressive (see on Pr 8:1).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 2:4The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.
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but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.
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Proverbs 10:24What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
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He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and…
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Psalms 37:13but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
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The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.
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Luke 14:24For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”
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Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
