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26     [a]I in my turn will laugh at your distress
    and mock you when panic overwhelms you,
27 when terror suddenly strikes you like a hurricane
    and your doom approaches like a whirlwind,
    when distress and anguish come upon you.

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  1. Proverbs 1:26 Wisdom laughs in reaction to the foolishness of the mockers who have rejected her warnings and brought ruin on themselves. They suffer the same fate as the scoundrel (Prov 6:12-15).

26 I in turn will laugh(A) when disaster(B) strikes you;
    I will mock(C) when calamity overtakes you(D)
27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
    when disaster(E) sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
    when distress and trouble overwhelm you.

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