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Proverbs 1:26

The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 1:26

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

I also will laugh at your calamity; or, more accurately, in the time of your calamity; as in the Vulgate, in interitu vestro ridebo. The preposition prefixed to the substantive b'eyd'chem ( בְּאֵידְכֵם) refers to the time, or state, or condition.

In the time of their calamity wisdom will exult or rejoice. The LXX; τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ἀπλείᾳ ἐπιγελάσομαι, however, favours the rendering of the Authorized Version. Calamity ( אֵיד, eyd) is heavy overwhelming misfortune, that which oppresses and crushes its victims.

The terrific nature of the punishment of the wicked is marked by a succession of terms all of terrible import—calamity, fear, desolation, destruction, distress, and anguish (, ).

When these come upon them, then Wisdom will laugh and have them in derision. The verbs "laugh" ( שָׂחַק, sakhak) and "mock" ( לָעַג laag) are the same as in , where they are rendered "to mock" and "have in derision."

When your fear cometh; i.e. has actually arrived. Fear ( פַחַד, pakhad); here used metonymically for that which causes the fear or terror (id, quod timebatis, Vulgate). There is a similar use of φόβος in .

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