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Proverbs 1:26

Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

I also will laugh at your calamity,.... By way of retaliation, measuring measure for measure; even as they scorned him, and delighted in their scorning, now he in his turn will "laugh" at them and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Proverbs 1:20-33

Solomon, having shown how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here shows how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God, which we shall for ever rue the neglect of.…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

at Rather, in, i.e. in the time of. Comp. on this verse Psa 2:4; Psa 37:13; Psa 59:8.

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