17Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; …
And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-18)Here, 1. The pleasure we are apt to take in the troubles of an enemy is forbidden us. If any have done us an ill turn, or if we bear them ill-will only because they stand in our light or in our way, when any damage comes to them (suppose they fall), or any danger (suppose they stumble), our corrupt hearts are too apt to conceive a secret delight and satisfaction in it— Aha! so would we have it; th…
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