Proverbs 1:27
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Proverbs 1:27 in other translations
| BSB | when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress. |
| DARBY | when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you: |
| BBE | When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you. |
| Webster | When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. |
What does Proverbs 1:27 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 1:20-33
20-33. 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)…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 1:20-33
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…
Proverbs 1:27 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 1:27
- Proverbs 3:25-26
Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
- 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. Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. …
- 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.
- Proverbs 10:24-25
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
- Romans 2:9
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
- Luke 21:23-26
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
- Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
- Revelation 6:15-17
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
3:25,26; 10:24,25; Ps 69:22-28; Lu 21:26,34,35; 1Th 5:3
Re 6:15-17
as a.
Ps 58:9; Isa 17:13; Na 1:3
distress.
Lu 21:23-25; Ro 2:9
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Context
- Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
- Proverbs 1:27
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Proverbs 1:28
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Proverbs 1:27 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cuando viniere como una destrucción lo que teméis, y vuestra calamidad llegare como un torbellino; cuando sobre vosotros viniere tribulación y angustia. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | quand votre frayeur viendra comme une subite destruction et que votre calamité arrivera comme un tourbillon, quand la détresse et l’angoisse viendront sur vous: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | wenn euer Schrecken kommt wie ein Unwetter, und euer Unglück hereinbricht wie ein Sturm, wenn Bedrängnis und Angst über euch kommen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cum irruerit repentina calamitas, et interitus quasi tempestas ingruerit; quando venerit super vos tribulatio et angustia: |