King James Version
Proverbs 1:26 in the King James Version says “I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;”
Proverbs 1:26 · KJV
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
When your fear cometh as desolation , and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“I also will laugh”
H7832to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by implication, to play
“I will mock”
H3932to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligibly
“when your fear”
H6343a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
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