Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 1:27
27when your terror comes like a storm and your calamity sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when trouble and distress overwhelm you!
Proverbs 1:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- New International Version (NIV)when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.
Context of Proverbs 1:27
25since you ignore all my advice and would not accept my rebuke, 26I in turn will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when dread comes on you, when your terror comes like a storm and your calamity sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when trouble and distress overwhelm you! 28Then they will cry out to me, but I will not answer! They will earnestly seek me, but will not find me. 29Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of Adonai,
Read all of Proverbs 1Proverbs 1:27 word by word
בְּבֹ֤א כְשׁוֹאָ֨ה פַּחְדְּכֶ֗ם וְֽ֭אֵידְכֶם כְּסוּפָ֣ה יֶאֱתֶ֑ה בְּבֹ֥א עֲ֝לֵיכֶ֗ם צָרָ֥ה וְצוּקָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- When your fearפַּ֫חַדpachad · dreadH6343
- comethבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
- as desolationשַׁאֲוָהsha'ăvâh · desolationH7584
- as desolationשׁוֹאָהshô' shô'âh shô'âh · devastationH7722
- and your destructionאֵיד'êyd · calamityH343
- comethאָתָה'âthâh 'âthâ' · to comeH857
- as a whirlwindסוּפָהsûphâh · whirlwindH5492
- when distressצָרָהtsârâh · distressH6869
- and anguishצוּקָהtsôq tsûqâh · anguishH6695
Cross-references for Proverbs 1:27
- Proverbs 3:25Have no fear of sudden terror, or of the devastation of the wicked when it comes.
- Proverbs 10:24What the wicked dread will fall on them. The desire of the righteous will be given.
- Psalms 69:22They put gall in my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Luke 21:26People will lose heart from fear and anticipation of what is overtaking the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3When they are saying, “Shalom and safety,” sudden destruction comes upon them like a woman having birth pains in the womb—there is no way they will escape.
- Revelation 6:15Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the military commanders and the rich and the mighty and everyone—slave and free—hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
- Psalms 58:9Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations will rush in like the rumbling of many waters, but He will rebuke them so they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the hills before the wind, like whirling dust before the storm.
- Nahum 1:3Adonai is slow to anger and great in power, but He will by no means acquit the guilty. Adonai’s way is with a whirlwind or with a storm wind, Clouds are the dust of His feet.
- Luke 21:23“Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath on this people.
- Romans 2:9There will be trouble and hardship for every human soul that does evil—to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Commentaries on Proverbs 1:27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27Your destruction cometh as a whirlwind - כסופה kesuphah, as the all-prostrating blast. Sense and sound are here well expressed. Suphah here is the gust of wind.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27Desolation - Better, tempest. The rapid gathering of the clouds, the rushing of the mighty winds, are the fittest types of the suddenness with which in the end the judgment of God shall fall on those who look not for it. Compare Matthew 24:29 etc.; Luke 17:24.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-33Verses 20-33 Solomon, having showed how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here declares how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God. Christ himself is Wisdom, is Wisdoms. Three sorts of persons are here called by Him: 1. Simple ones. Sinners are fond of their simple notions of good and evil, their simple prejudices against the ways of God, and flatter themselves in their wickedness. 2. Scorners. Proud, jovial people, that…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24-27you neglected all my counsel: This is like ignoring God's call (see Psalm 14). God calls us through: creation (Psalm 8; Romans 1:18–20) Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16–17; 2 Peter 1:20–21)Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 20-3320-33. Some interpreters regard this address as the language of the Son of God under the name of Wisdom (compare Lu 11:49). 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). Wisdom--literally, "Wisdoms," the plural…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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