Proverbs 1:27 {28}
Good News Translation
when it comes on you like a storm, bringing fierce winds of trouble, and you are in pain and misery.

New Revised Standard Version
when panic strikes you like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

Contemporary English Version
or when trouble and distress surround you like a whirlwind, I will laugh and make fun.

New American Bible
When terror comes upon you like a storm, and your doom approaches like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish befall you.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:

your fear

Proverbs 3:25,26 For the Lord will be at thy side, and will keep thy foot that thou be not taken. . . .

Proverbs 10:24,25 As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as an everlasting foundation. . . .

Psalm 69:22-28 Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock. . . .

Luke 21:26,34,35 Men withering away for fear and expectation of what shall come upon the whole world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

Revelation 6:15-17 And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: . . .

as a

Psalm 58:9 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

Isaiah 17:13 Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

Nahum 1:3 The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the dust of his feet.

distress

Luke 21:23-25 But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days: for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people. . . .

Romans 2:9 Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

Context
Wisdom Calls Aloud
26When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you: 27Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:28Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,…
Cross References
Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

Proverbs 10:24
As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as an everlasting foundation.

Proverbs 10:25
As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that sent him.

Proverbs 1:26
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