King James Version
Proverbs 1:27 in the King James Version says “When your fear cometh as desolation , and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon ...” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“When your fear cometh as desolation , and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.”
Proverbs 1:27 · KJV
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:
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“When your fear”
H6343a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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