I, in turn, will laugh at your calamity.
I will mock when terror strikes you,

when terror strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when trouble and stress overcome you.

They have stricken me, you shall say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

My son, if thou art surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

A joyful heart, maketh a pleasing countenance, - but, in sorrow of heart, is a stricken spirit.

A joyful heart, worketh an excellent cure, - but, a stricken spirit, drieth up the bone.

Justice executed is a joy to the righteous
but a terror to those who practice iniquity.

The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

Wise men, treasure up knowledge, but, the mouth of the foolish, is a terror near at hand.

The substance of the rich, is his strong city, the terror of the poor, is their poverty.

Do not be afraid of sudden fear
Nor of the storm of the wicked when it comes [since you will be blameless];

Till an arrow strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly;
he will be shattered instantly—beyond recovery.