Proverbs 1:27

Translations

Modern

…when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Traditional

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

Literal

…your dread comes like a storm, and your calamity like a whirlwind comes, in the coming upon you of distress and anguish.

Latin

Cum irruerit repentina calamitas, et interitus quasi tempestas ingruerit; quando venerit super vos tribulatio et angustia:

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Hebrew

English

…when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Notes

Proverbs 1:24–27

you 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)

Proverbs 1:20–33

The author describes wisdom as a woman. In Hebrew, the word for wisdom, khokmah, is grammatically feminine. The author encourages his son to embrace wisdom (see Proverbs 3:18; 8:1–9:6).

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Proverbs 3:25–26
Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
Psalm 69:22–28
May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
Proverbs 10:24–25
What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
Luke 21:23–26
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
Psalm 58:9
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
Luke 21:34–35
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
Romans 2:9
There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;
Nahum 1:3
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
Revelation 6:15–17
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: God Holds in Derision Counsel: Rejected Fear of God: Guilty God: Longsuffering of, Abused Holy Spirit: Withdrawn from Incorrigible Sinners Hurricanes Impenitence: General Scriptures Concerning Instruction: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Judgments are Sent, As Punishment For: Despising the Warnings of God Obduracy (Hardness): General Scriptures Concerning Opportunity: The Measure of Responsibility Punishment: Delayed Punishment: Divine: No Escape From Remorse: General Scriptures Concerning Repentance: Exhortation To Reprobacy: General Scriptures Concerning The Afflictions of the Wicked: God Holds in Derision The Call of God: Rejection by God Unholy Fear: Shall be Realised Whirlwind: Destructive Whirlwind: Destructive Nature of Whirlwind: Illustrative of The: Sudden Destruction of the Wicked Wicked (People): Prayer of Wisdom: Spiritual: Unclassified Scriptures Relating to Young Men: General Scriptures Concerning

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