Proverbs 24:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Who knoweth? who can conceive how sore and sudden it will be? The ruin of them both; of them that fear not God, and of them that fear not the king, for they have two potent and terrible enemies; and therefore if they will not obey them out of conscience, as their duty binds them, yet they should do it at least for their own sakes, and for fear of those severe punishments which they will certainly inflict upon rebels.

Proverbs 24:22

22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?