Proverbs 1:26

Good News Translation

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

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;

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 calling out in the streets and marketplaces, ²¹ calling loudly at the city gates and wherever people come together: ²² "Foolish people! How long do you want to be foolish? How long will you enjoy making fun of knowledge? Will you never learn? ²³ Listen when I reprimand you; I will give you good advice and share my knowledge with you. ²⁴ I have been calling you, inviting you to come, but you would not listen. You paid no attention to me. ²⁵ You have ignored all my advice and have not been willing to let me correct you. ²⁶ So when you get into trouble, I will laugh at you. I will make fun of you when terror strikes— ²⁷ when it comes on you like a storm, bringing fierce winds of trouble, and you are in pain and misery. ²⁸ Then you will call for wisdom, but I will not answer. You may look for me everywhere, but you will not find me. ²⁹ You have never had any use for knowledge and have always refused to obey 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 formless and desolate. The raging ocean that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness, and the Spirit of God was moving over the water.

Genesis 1:4
God was pleased with what he saw. Then he separated the light from the darkness,

Genesis 1:6
Then God commanded, "Let there be a dome to divide the water and to keep it in two separate places"—and it was done. So God made a dome, and it separated the water under it from the water above it.

Genesis 1:8
He named the dome "Sky." Evening passed and morning came—that was the second day.

Genesis 1:9
Then God commanded, "Let the water below the sky come together in one place, so that the land will appear"—and it was done.

Genesis 1:20
Then God commanded, "Let the water be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let the air be filled with birds."

Genesis 1:24
Then God commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of animal life: domestic and wild, large and small"—and it was done.

Genesis 1:28
blessed them, and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.

Genesis 1:29
I have provided all kinds of grain and all kinds of fruit for you to eat;

Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "Now these human beings have become like one of us and have knowledge of what is good and what is bad. They must not be allowed to take fruit from the tree that gives life, eat it, 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.