27 When [a]your fear cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirlwind: when affliction and anguish shall come upon you,

28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer: they shall seek me early, but they shall not [b]find me,

29 Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 1:27 That is, your destruction, which thing you feared.
  2. Proverbs 1:28 Because they sought not with an affection to God, but for ease of their own grief.

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