Proverbs 24:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

For their calamity will rise suddenly; The destruction from them both--who knows?

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  • Num 16:31-35 : 31 It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them; 32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods. 33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly. 34 All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up. 35 Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
  • 1 Sam 31:1-7 : 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa. 2 The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. 3 The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers. 4 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it. 5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him. 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together. 7 When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
  • 2 Sam 18:7-8 : 7 The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. 8 For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
  • 2 Chr 13:16-17 : 16 The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand. 17 Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
  • Ps 90:11 : 11 Who knows the power of your anger, Your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
  • Prov 16:14 : 14 The king's wrath is a messenger of death, But a wise man will pacify it.
  • Prov 20:2 : 2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion: He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, He is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
  • Hos 13:10-11 : 10 Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?' 11 I have given you a king in my anger, And have taken him away in my wrath.

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  • 21 My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don't join those who are rebellious:

  • 15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • 11 Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning of it: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know.

  • 27 When calamity overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you.

  • 2 For their hearts plot violence, And their lips talk about mischief.

  • 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

  • Ps 73:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

    19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • 23 These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

  • 17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • 18 Lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.

  • 25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

  • Job 21:16-18
    3 verses
    71%

    16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

    17 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?

    18 That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?

  • 15 Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

  • 10 Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you,

  • 25 Don't be afraid of sudden fear, Neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

  • Job 24:22-24
    3 verses
    71%

    22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

    23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

    24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

  • 18 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, Neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

  • Job 21:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

    30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

    31 Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

  • 21 A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

  • 12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, And brings the wicked to ruin.

  • 12 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it:

  • Ezek 7:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

    26 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

  • 14 At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • 20 In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.

  • 32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

  • 1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck Will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

  • Job 4:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

    21 Isn't their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

  • 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

  • 7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, Because they refuse to do what is right.

  • 24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • 23 For Yahweh will plead their case, And plunder the life of those who plunder them.

  • 3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

  • 47 Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.

  • 12 For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

  • 12 The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; But he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

  • 11 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

  • 8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • 21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it; They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

  • 22 A stingy man hurries after riches, And doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

  • 3 A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

  • 21 An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, Won't be blessed in the end.

  • 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.