Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:26

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

26. at ] Rather, in, i.e. in the time of. Comp. on this verse Psa 2:4; Psa 37:13; Psa 59:8.

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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.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

As you have scoffed at me and my ways,

I also will laugh at your calamity, i.e. destroy you without pity, and take pleasure therein. Compare Rev 18:20.

Your fear; the misery which you do or should fear. The act for the object, as Isa 8:12, and elsewhere.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

26, 27. In their extremedistress He will not only refuse help, but aggravate it by derision.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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 Ps 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, Isa 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”, 1Th 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”,

Lu 21:26.

f “significat vaporem”, Vatablus, Mercerus, Amama.

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(26) I also will laugh . . . I will mock.For expressions like this, comp. Psa. 2:4; Psa. 37:13; Psa. 59:8, where the same actions are attributed to God. They are not to be taken literally, of course, for the sight of human folly can give no pleasure to Him. They signify that He will act as if He mocked when He refuses to hear their cry. Similar expressions, imputing human actions to the Almighty, are Gen. 11:5; Gen. 11:7; 2Ch. 16:9; Psa. 18:9; human feelings, Gen. 6:6.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

26. I

laugh Ye have laughed at my expostulations and mocked at my words; now, when your calamity comes, I also will laugh at you and deride your fears.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Pro 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Ver. 26. I also will laugh. ] Quod Deus loquitur cum risu, tu legas cum fletu. a If God laugh, thou hast good cause to cry. Note here the venomous nature of sin, which is so offensive to God, that it makes him (against his ordinary wont) merry at his creatures’ misery, who otherwise delights in mercy. Mic 7:18

When your fear cometh. ] That “terrible tempest.” Job 15:21-22 Psa 11:6 Tullus Hostilius (a profane prince) set up and worshipped at Rome two new gods, viz., Pavor and Pallor, as Lactantius b testifieth. Cataline was wont to be afraid at any sudden noise, as being haunted with the furies of his own evil conscience. c So was our Richard the Third after the murder of his two innocent nephews, d and Charles the Ninth of France after the Parisian massacre e These tyrants became more terrible to themselves than ever they had been to others.

a Augustine.

b Lactan. Instit.

c Salust.

d Daniel.

e Thuan.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

I: i.e. I, Wisdom.

fear = what you fear. “Fear” put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause) App-6, for the calamity which produced the fear. Note the Introversion in Hebrew of “fear”, “desolation”, “destruction”, “anguish”, in verses: Pro 1:26, Pro 1:27.

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Jdg 10:14, Psa 2:4, Psa 37:13, Luk 14:24

Reciprocal: Deu 28:63 – rejoice over Jos 10:2 – they feared Job 15:21 – dreadful sound Psa 14:5 – were Psa 59:8 – Thou Pro 10:17 – he that Pro 12:8 – he Isa 1:24 – Ah

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1:26 I also will {t} laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

(t) This is spoken according to our capacity signifying that the wicked, who mock and jest at God’s word, will have the just reward of their mocking.

Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes