Proverbs 1:27
Context| NETBible | when what you dread 1 comes like a whirlwind, 2 and disaster strikes you 3 like a devastating storm, 4 when distressing trouble 5 comes on you. |
| XREF | Ps 58:9; Ps 69:22-28; Pr 3:25,26; Pr 10:24,25; Isa 17:13; Na 1:3; Lu 21:23-25; Lu 21:26,34,35; Ro 2:9; 1Th 5:3; Re 6:15-17 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “your dread.” See note on 1:31. 2 sn The term “whirlwind” (NAB, NIV, NRSV; cf. TEV, NLT “storm”) refers to a devastating storm and is related to the verb שׁוֹא (sho’, “to crash into ruins”; see BDB 996 s.v. שׁוֹאָה). Disaster will come swiftly and crush them like a devastating whirlwind. 3 tn Heb “your disaster.” The 2nd person masculine singular suffix is an objective genitive: “disaster strikes you.” 4 tn Heb “like a storm.” The noun סוּפָה (sufah, “storm”) is often used in similes to describe sudden devastation (Isa 5:28; Hos 8:7; Amos 1:14). 5 tn Heb “distress and trouble.” The nouns “distress and trouble” mean almost the same thing so they may form a hendiadys. The two similar sounding terms צוּקָה (tsuqah) and צָרָה (tsarah) also form a wordplay (paronomasia) which also links them together. |
