Proverbs 1:26

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I, in turn, will laugh at your calamity.I will mock when terror strikes you,

Hebrew Names Version
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

King James Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

English Standard Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,

New Century Version
So I will laugh when you are in trouble. I will make fun when disaster strikes you,

New English Translation
so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,

Amplified Bible
I also will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when your dread and panic come,

New American Standard Bible
I will also laugh at your disaster; I will mock when your dread comes,

World English Bible
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

Geneva Bible (1587)
I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.

Legacy Standard Bible
I will also laugh at your disaster;I will mock when your dread comes,

Berean Standard Bible
in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

Contemporary English Version
"So when you are struck by some terrible disaster,

Complete Jewish Bible
I, in turn, will laugh at your distress, and mock when terror comes over you —

Darby Translation
I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;

Easy-to-Read Version
So I will laugh at your troubles and make fun of you when what you fear happens.

George Lamsa Translation
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will rejoice when terror and sudden destruction come upon you;

Good News Translation
So when you get into trouble, I will laugh at you. I will make fun of you when terror strikes—

Lexham English Bible
I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic comes upon you.

Literal Translation
I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your dread comes;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore shal I also laugh in yor destruccion, and mocke you, when ye thinge that ye feare cometh vpon you:

American Standard Version
I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Bible in Basic English
So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I also, in your calamity, will laugh, I will mock when your dread cometh;

King James Version (1611)
I also will laugh at your calamitie, I wil mocke when your feare commeth.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore wyll I also laugh at your destruction, and mocke you, when the thyng that ye feare commeth vpon you,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against you when ruin comes upon you:

English Revised Version
I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal leiye in youre perisching; and Y schal scorne you, whanne that, that ye dreden, cometh to you.

Update Bible Version
I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;

Webster's Bible Translation
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

New King James Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes,

New Living Translation
So I will laugh when you are in trouble! I will mock you when disaster overtakes you—

New Life Bible
So I will laugh at your trouble. I will laugh when you are afraid.

New Revised Standard
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic strikes you,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I also, at your calamity, will laugh, I will mock, when cometh your dread;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.

Revised Standard Version
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic strikes you,

Young's Literal Translation
I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes,

Contextual Overview

²⁰Lady Wisdom goes out in the street and shouts. At the town center she makes her speech. In the middle of the traffic she takes her stand. At the busiest corner she calls out: ²²"Simpletons! How long will you wallow in ignorance? Cynics! How long will you feed your cynicism? Idiots! How long will you refuse to learn? About face! I can revise your life. Look, I'm ready to pour out my spirit on you; I'm ready to tell you all I know. As it is, I've called, but you've turned a deaf ear; I've reached out to you, but you've ignored me. ²⁵"Since you laugh at my counsel and make a joke of my advice, How can I take you seriously? I'll turn the tables and joke about your troubles! What if the roof falls in, and your whole life goes to pieces? What if catastrophe strikes and there's nothing to show for your life but rubble and ashes? You'll need me then. You'll call for me, but don't expect an answer. No matter how hard you look, you won't find me. ²⁹"Because you hated Knowledge and had nothing to do with the Fear-of- God, Because you wouldn't take my advice and brushed aside all my offers to train you, Well, you've made your bed—now lie in it; you wanted your own way—now, how do you like it? Don't you see what happens, you simpletons, you idiots? Carelessness kills; complacency is murder. First pay attention to me, and then relax. Now you can take it easy—you're in good hands."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 10:14, Psalms 2:4, Psalms 37:13, Luke 14:24

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:63 - rejoice over Joshua 10:2 - they feared Job 15:21 - dreadful sound Psalms 14:5 - were Psalms 59:8 - Thou Proverbs 10:17 - he that Proverbs 12:8 - he Isaiah 1:24 - Ah

Cross-References

Genesis 1:6
God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!" God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: he named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning— Day Two.

Genesis 1:9
God spoke: "Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!" And there it was. God named the land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:20
God spoke: "Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life! Birds, fly through the sky over Earth!" God created the huge whales, all the swarm of life in the waters, And every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean! Birds, reproduce on Earth!" It was evening, it was morning— Day Five.

Genesis 1:24
God spoke: "Earth, generate life! Every sort and kind: cattle and reptiles and wild animals—all kinds." And there it was: wild animals of every kind, Cattle of all kinds, every sort of reptile and bug. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "I've given you every sort of seed-bearing plant on Earth And every kind of fruit-bearing tree, given them to you for food. To all animals and all birds, everything that moves and breathes, I give whatever grows out of the ground for food." And there it was.

Genesis 3:22
God said, "The Man has become like one of us, capable of knowing everything, ranging from good to evil. What if he now should reach out and take fruit from the Tree-of-Life and eat, and live forever? Never—this cannot happen!"

Genesis 5:1
This is the family tree of the human race: When God created the human race, he made it godlike, with a nature akin to God. He created both male and female and blessed them, the whole human race.

Psalms 100:3
Know this: God is God, and God, God . He made us; we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep.

Isaiah 64:8
Still, God , you are our Father. We're the clay and you're our potter: All of us are what you made us. Don't be too angry with us, O God . Don't keep a permanent account of wrongdoing. Keep in mind, please, we are your people—all of us. Your holy cities are all ghost towns: Zion's a ghost town, Jerusalem's a field of weeds. Our holy and beautiful Temple, which our ancestors filled with your praises, Was burned down by fire, all our lovely parks and gardens in ruins. In the face of all this, are you going to sit there unmoved, God ? Aren't you going to say something? Haven't you made us miserable long enough?

John 5:17
But Jesus defended himself. "My Father is working straight through, even on the Sabbath. So am I."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 their distress; which act is ascribed to the Lord by an anthropopathy; see Psalms 2:4; signifying that he should not at all pity them, show no compassion to them, and have no mercy upon them; but rather express a pleasure and delight in displaying the glory of his justice in their destruction: the plain sense is, that no favour would be shown them, Isaiah 27:11. The word translated "calamity" signifies a "vapour" f, or cloud; denoting it would be a very dark dispensation with the Jews, as it was when "wrath came upon them to the uttermost", 1 Thessalonians 2:16; even on their nation, city, and temple; as in their last destruction by the Romans, which is here intended;

I will mock when your fear cometh; which is the same thing in different words; for by "fear" is meant the dreadful calamity on which brought dread, terror, and consternation with it, and of which they had fearful apprehensions beforehand: wherefore this is mentioned among the signs of Jerusalem's destruction, "men's hearts failing them for fear",

Luke 21:26.

f איד "significat vaporem", Vatablus, Mercerus, Amama.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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, significant that in the fuller revelation of the mind and will of the Father in the person of the Son no such language meets us. Sadness, sternness, severity, there may be, but, from first to last, no word of mere derision.