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Proverbi 17:5

Chi schernisce il povero oltraggia Colui che lha fatto; chi si rallegra della sventura altrui non rimarr impunito.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Malice;   Poor;   Thompson Chain Reference - Joy-Sorrow;   Mocking;   Needy, the;   Poor, the;   Poverty-Riches;   Rejoicing;   Ridicule;   The Topic Concordance - Mockery;   Punishment;   Reproach;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Poor, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Poor;   Work;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Tyre;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Laughter;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mock;   Poor;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Burial;   Death, Views and Customs Concerning;  

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
Chi beffa il povero oltraggia Colui che l’ha fatto; chi si rallegra dell’altrui sventura non rimarrà impunito.
Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Chi beffa il povero fa onta a colui che l’ha fatto; Chi si rallegra della calamità altrui non resterà impunito.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

mocketh: Proverbs 14:21, Proverbs 14:31, Psalms 69:9, 1 John 3:17

and: Proverbs 24:17, Proverbs 24:18, Job 31:29, Jeremiah 17:16, Obadiah 1:11-13, Obadiah 1:16, Romans 12:15

unpunished: Heb. held innocent, Proverbs 16:5, *marg.

Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:21 - poor Leviticus 25:35 - thy brother Job 30:25 - was Psalms 35:15 - in mine Proverbs 28:20 - innocent Jeremiah 25:29 - Ye shall Jeremiah 49:12 - they whose Jeremiah 50:11 - ye were Ezekiel 25:3 - thou saidst Ezekiel 35:15 - didst Ezekiel 36:5 - with the Obadiah 1:12 - rejoiced Matthew 25:45 - Inasmuch Romans 12:16 - condescend to men of low estate Romans 15:26 - the poor 1 Corinthians 11:22 - that have not James 1:9 - the brother James 2:6 - ye

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker,.... He that mocks the poor for his poverty, Upbraids him with his mean appearance, scoffs at the clothes he wears or food he eats, such an one reproaches his Creator; or, as the Targum,

"provokes his Creator to anger;''

him who is his own Creator as well as the poor man's; him who made the poor man, both as a man and as a poor man; and who could have made him rich if he would, as well as the man that mocks at him; whose riches are not of himself, but of God; and who can take them away, and give them to the poor man if he pleases; and therefore rich men should be careful how they mock the poor; for, as Gersom observes, he that derides a work derides the workman;

[and] he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished; or "at calamity" c; at the calamity of another, as the Vulgate Latin; and so Gersom; for no man rejoices at his own calamity; at the calamity of the poor, as Aben Ezra; or of his neighbour or companion, as the Targum; or at the calamity of any of his fellow creatures, as the Edomites rejoiced at the calamity of the Jews, but were in their turn destroyed; and as the Jews rejoiced when the Christians were persecuted by Nero, and at length were destroyed themselves by the Romans; and as the Papists will rejoice when the witnesses are slain, and quickly after seven thousand men of name will be slain of them, and the rest frightened, Revelation 11:10.

c לאיד "ad calamitatem", Schultens; "ob calamitatem", Cocceius; "calamitate", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that is glad at calamities - A temper common at all times as the most hateful form of evil; the Greek ἐπιχαιρεκακία epichairekakia. The sins spoken of in both clauses occur also in Job’s vindication of his integrity Proverbs 31:13, Proverbs 31:29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 17:5. He that is glad at calamity — He who is pleased to hear of the misfortune of another will, in the course of God's just government, have his own multiplied.


 
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