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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 1:26

I also will laugh... I will mock. — For expressions like this, comp. Psalms 2:4; Psalms 37:13; Psalms 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 Genesis 11:5; Genesis 11:7; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Psalms 18:9; human feelings, Genesis 6:6.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; I ALSO WILL LAUGH AT YOUR CALAMITY. Retribution in kind (). God will at last laugh in derision at those who now laugh to scor...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גַּם ־אֲ֭נִי בְּ אֵידְכֶ֣ם אֶשְׂחָ֑ק אֶ֝לְעַ֗ג...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Mock. God is too much above us to act thus; but he will treat us as an enraged enemy. (Calmet) --- In hell, the damned will cry in vain, ver. 28. They had sufficient graces offered while they were al...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Because I have called_, &c. By my ministers, my judgments, the motions of my Spirit, and your own consciences; _and ye refused_ To obey my call; _I have stretched out my hand_ Offering mercy and grac...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 1:26 laugh H7832 (H8799) calamity H343 mock H3932 (H8799) terror H6343 comes H935 (H8800)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    But If They Refuse To Respond To Wisdom's Voice And Fail To Choose The Fear Of YHWH Then One Day, When They Suffer The Consequences Of Their Refusal As They Surely Will, Wisdom Will Mock At Them, And...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 1:24 I. The person represented as speaking these very solemn and terrible words is that same wisdom which is represented in the verses before the text as making most gracious offers to all wh...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:20 Wisdom is personified here as a woman. She is pictured appealing to simple ones, scoffers, and fools to pay attention to her words. Wisdom speaks in a way that recalls t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Judges 10:14; Luke 14:24; Psalms 2:4; Psalms 37:13...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Your fear — The misery you do or should fear....

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