Proverbs 1:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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: Proverbs 1:26; Proverbs 1:27.

Proverbs 1:26

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