Proverbs 1:27 (BSB)

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

From Proverbs 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 1:27

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 1:20-33: Solomon, having shown how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here shows how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God, which we shall for ever rue the neglect of. Observe, I. By whom God calls to us - by wisdom. It is wisdom that crieth without.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 1:27: When your fear cometh as desolation,.... When such will be the calamity that will occasion this fear, that it shall be like some desolating judgment, as famine, sword, and pestilence, which lays all waste: and such was the destruction of the Jews by the Romans; it not only laid Jerusalem and the temple waste, but the whole country of Judea.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 1:27: fear--the object of it. desolation--literally, "a tumultuous noise," denoting their utter confusion. destruction--or calamity (Pro 1:26) compared to a whirlwind, as to fatal rapidity. distress-- (Psa 4:1; Psa 44:11). anguish--a state of inextricable oppression, the deepest despair.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 1:27: When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. (u) That is, your destruction, which you feared.