Job 31:29

Job's Final Defense Continued

²⁸ this would also be a proven iniquity; for I should have denied the God that is sovereign. ²⁹ “Have I rejoiced at the extinction of my enemy,
Or exulted when evil befell him?
³⁰ for I have never even suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul;

Lifted Up

Job

No

Proverbs 17:5

Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he that is glad regarding the calamity of someone else shall not go unpunished.

Proverbs 24:17-18

Do not rejoice when thy enemy falls, and do not let thy heart be glad when he stumbles

2 Samuel 1:12

And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel because they had fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 4:10-11

when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him and slew him in Ziklag as a reward for his tidings.

2 Samuel 16:5-8

And when King David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house of Saul came forth, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came forth cursing

Psalm 35:13-14

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer rose up in my bosom.

Psalm 35:25-26

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it; let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Obadiah 1:12

But thou should not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither should thou have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day they were lost; neither should thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.