Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:27
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
27. desolation ] So R.V. marg. Comp. Zep 1:15, where both in A.V. and R.V. this and a cognate Heb. word are rendered “wasteness and desolation.” The parallel, however, is better preserved if, with R.V. text we render storm, as in Eze 38:9, A.V. and R.V. LXX. has ; Vulg. repentina calamitas.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Desolation – Better, tempest. The rapid gathering of the clouds, the rushing of the mighty winds, are the fittest types of the suddenness with which in the end the judgment of God shall fall on those who look not for it. Compare Mat 24:29 etc.; Luk 17:24.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 27. Your destruction cometh as a whirlwind] kesuphah, as the all-prostrating blast. Sense and sound are here well expressed. Suphah here is the gust of wind.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
As desolation; as some desolating sword or judgment, which quickly overruns a whole country.
As a whirlwind; which instantly spreadeth itself from place to place with great and irresistible violence, and doing much mischief.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
27. fearthe object of it.
desolationliterally,”a tumultuous noise,” denoting their utter confusion.
destructionor calamity(Pr 1:26) compared to awhirlwind, as to fatal rapidity.
distress (Psa 4:1;Psa 44:11).
anguisha state ofinextricable oppression, the deepest despair.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
When your fear cometh as desolation,…. When such will be the calamity that will occasion this fear, that it shall be like some desolating judgment, as famine, sword, and pestilence, which lays all waste: and such was the destruction of the Jews by the Romans; it not only laid Jerusalem and the temple waste, but the whole country of Judea. These are the “desolations” said to be “determined”, or “the consummation and that determined”, which should be “poured upon the desolate”, Da 9:26;
and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; suddenly and unthought of, fierce, and boisterous, throwing down and carrying all before it: so the said destruction did; it threw down the walls and houses of the city of Jerusalem, and the temple, and its fine buildings, so that not one stone was left upon another not thrown down, Mt 24:2;
when distress and anguish cometh upon you; as they did at that time with a witness, when Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans: what with the sword of the enemy without, and the famine within; together with the vast number of cutthroats and seditious persons among themselves; it was such a time of distress and tribulation as never was from the beginning of the world, nor ever will be, Mt 24:22. Josephus’s history of those times is a proper comment on these words.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
27. When fear cometh Wisdom dwells upon this for the sake of impression, adding terrible qualifications.
Desolation Or, a desolating tempest.
A whirlwind A tornado, which rapidly whirls along with irresistible violence, spreading destruction in its path. Compare Job 1:16; Job 1:19; Zep 1:15. Tornadoes were very frequent in the East during the winter and cold seasons. They often proved fatal to travellers and others exposed to their fury. Morier, describing the whirlwinds of Persia, says they swept along in a manner truly terrific. They carried away in their vortex, sand, branches of trees, and the stubble of the fields, and usually appeared to make a communication between the earth and the clouds. Our own country occasionally furnishes examples of terrific tornadoes.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Pro 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Ver. 27. When your fear cometh as desolation. ] Scilicet, Of war, which lays heaps upon heaps, and leaves not a stone upon a stone. Mat 24:2
As a whirlwind.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
desolation = tempest.
destruction = calamity.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
your fear: Pro 3:25, Pro 3:26, Pro 10:24, Pro 10:25, Psa 69:22-28, Luk 21:26, Luk 21:34, Luk 21:35, 1Th 5:3, Rev 6:15-17
as a: Psa 58:9, Isa 17:13, Nah 1:3
distress: Luk 21:23-25, Rom 2:9
Reciprocal: Gen 42:21 – this distress Jos 10:2 – they feared 1Sa 28:6 – inquired Job 15:21 – dreadful sound Job 15:24 – anguish Job 22:10 – sudden Job 31:3 – destruction Psa 14:5 – were Psa 63:1 – early Pro 6:15 – shall his Ecc 5:17 – much Isa 40:24 – and the Jer 6:24 – anguish Jer 23:19 – General Jer 30:23 – the whirlwind Eze 20:31 – and shall Hos 5:15 – in their
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1:27 When {u} your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
(u) That is, your destruction, which you feared.