Proverbs 1:26

Easy-to-Read Version

So I will laugh at your troubles and make fun of you when what you fear happens.

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;

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 Listen! Wisdom is shouting in the streets. She is crying out in the marketplace. ²¹ She is calling out where the noisy crowd gathers: ²² "Fools, how long will you love being ignorant? How long will you make fun of wisdom? How long will you hate knowledge? ²³ I wanted to tell you everything I knew and give you all my knowledge, but you didn't listen to my advice and teaching. ²⁴ "I tried to help, but you refused to listen. I offered my hand, but you turned away from me. ²⁵ You ignored my advice and refused to be corrected. ²⁶ So I will laugh at your troubles and make fun of you when what you fear happens. ²⁷ Disasters will strike you like a storm. Problems will pound you like a strong wind. Trouble and misery will weigh you down. ²⁸ "Fools will call for me, but I will not answer. They will look for me, but they will not find me. ²⁹ That is because they hated knowledge. They refused to fear and respect 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
the earth was completely empty. There was nothing on the earth. Darkness covered the ocean, and God's Spirit moved over the water.

Genesis 1:4
He saw the light, and he knew that it was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:6
Then God said, "Let there be a space to separate the water into two parts!"

Genesis 1:8
God named that space "sky." There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the second day.

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together so that the dry land will appear." And it happened.

Genesis 1:20
Then God said, "Let the water be filled with many living things, and let there be birds to fly in the air over the earth."

Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth produce many kinds of living things. Let there be many different kinds of animals. Let there be large animals and small crawling animals of every kind. And let all these animals produce more animals." And all these things happened.

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, "Have many children. Fill the earth and take control of it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 1:29
God said, "I am giving you all the grain bearing plants and all the fruit trees. These trees make fruit with seeds in it. This grain and fruit will be your food.

Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, "Look, the man has become like us—he knows about good and evil. And now the man might take the fruit from the tree of life. If the man eats that fruit, he will 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.