Proverbs 1:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 2:4 : 4 Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
  • Prov 10:24 : 24 The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.
  • Luke 14:24 : 24 For I say to you that not one of those who were requested to come will have a taste of my feast.
  • Ps 37:13 : 13 He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.
  • Prov 6:15 : 15 For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.
  • Judg 10:14 : 14 Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.

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    27 When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

  • Ps 52:6
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    6 The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

  • Ps 37:13
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    13 He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

  • Ps 59:8
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    8 But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations.

  • Ps 2:4-5
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    4 Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

    5 Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled:

  • Prov 1:25
    75%

    25 You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:

  • Job 8:21
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    21 The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.

  • Job 5:22
    73%

    22 You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

  • Job 12:4
    73%

    4 It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

  • Prov 17:5
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    5 Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.

  • Eccl 7:6
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    6 Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

  • Hab 1:10
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    10 He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.

  • Job 22:19
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    19 The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

  • Job 11:3
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    3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

  • Isa 28:22
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    22 And now, take care that you do not make sport of him, or your bands will be made strong; for I have had word from the Lord, the Lord of armies, of an end, of a complete end, which is to come on all the land.

  • Ps 22:7
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    7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

  • Prov 14:13
    71%

    13 Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

  • Job 29:24
    71%

    24 I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

  • Job 21:3
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    3 Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

  • Job 13:9
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    9 Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

  • Ezek 22:5
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    5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear.

  • Job 9:23
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    23 If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

  • Prov 18:3
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    3 When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.

  • Eccl 2:1-2
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    1 I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

    2 Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?

  • Job 17:2
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    2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

  • Lam 3:14
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    14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

  • Prov 1:23
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    23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

  • Prov 5:11
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    11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
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    27 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • Ps 49:5
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    5 What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

  • Prov 3:25
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    25 Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:

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    1 But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

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    51 The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.

  • Job 6:21
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    21 So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

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    9 Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

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    7 O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.

  • Prov 27:11
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    11 My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

  • Prov 26:19
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    19 So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

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    7 Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.

  • Isa 37:28
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    28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • Ps 35:15-16
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    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

    16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

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    26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

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    30 They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

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    17 I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.

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    6 You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

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    27 For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.

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    5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,