Proverbs 17:5 Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.

English Standard Version
Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

New American Standard Bible
He who mocks the poor taunts his Maker; He who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

King James Bible
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker, and one who rejoices over calamity will not go unpunished.

International Standard Version
Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their maker, and whoever is happy about disaster will not go unpunished.

American Standard Version
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; And he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his Maker; and he that rejoiceth at another man's ruin, shall not be unpunished.

Darby Bible Translation
Whoso mocketh a poor man reproacheth his Maker; he that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent.

Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.

Cross References

Job 31:29
If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

Proverbs 14:31
He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.

Proverbs 24:17
Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles:

Obadiah 1:12
But you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

17:4. Flatterers, especially false teachers, are welcome to those that live in sin. 5. Those that laugh at poverty, treat God's providence and precepts with contempt. 6. It is an honour to children to have wise and godly parents continued to them, even after they are grown up and settled in the world. 7. A fool, in Solomon's Proverbs, signifies a wicked man, whom excellent speech does not become, because his conversation contradicts it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. (Compare Pr 14:31).

glad at calamities—rejoicing in others' evil. Such are rightly punished by God, who knows their hearts.