Proverbs 1:26

The NET Bible®

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

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,

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

²⁰ Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas; ²¹ at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words: ²² "How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? ²³ If only you will respond to my rebuke, then I will pour out my thoughts to you and I will make my words known to you. ²⁴ However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention, ²⁵ because you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke, ²⁶ so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes, ²⁷ when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you. ²⁸ Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me. ²⁹ Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the Lord ,

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 1:2
Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:6
God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water."

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear." It was so.

Genesis 1:20
God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."

Genesis 1:24
God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind." It was so.

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."

Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

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.