Proverbs 1:27

25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

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

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
KJV
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
WEB
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.
ASV
When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
DARBY
when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
BLB
your⁺ dread comes like a storm, and your⁺ calamity like a whirlwind comes, in the coming upon you⁺ of distress and anguish.
ÅB
når det dere reddes for, kommer som et uvær, og deres ulykke farer fram som en stormvind, når trengsel og nød kommer over dere.
OTB
Når deres redsel kommer som en storm og deres ulykke som en virvelvind, når nød og angst kommer over dere.
B1930
når det I reddes for, kommer som et uvær, og eders ulykke farer frem som en stormvind, når trengsel og nød kommer over eder.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Proverbs 3:25–26

    Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

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  • Psalms 69:22–28

    Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

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  • Psalms 58:9

    Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

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  • Proverbs 10:24–25

    The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

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  • Romans 2:9

    Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

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  • 1 Thessalonians 5:3

    For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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  • Nahum 1:3

    The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

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  • Luke 21:34–35

    And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

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