“for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both?”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 24 contains 34 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.