Job 31:29

Job's Final Defense Continued

²⁸ This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above. ²⁹ If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him; ³⁰ (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)

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Proverbs 17:5

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

Proverbs 24:17-18

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth;

2 Samuel 1:12

And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 4:10-11

when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead! and he was in his own sight a messenger of good, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag to whom forsooth I should give a reward for his good tidings:

2 Samuel 16:5-8

And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out from thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed,

Psalm 35:13-14

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom:

Psalm 35:25-26

Let them not say in their heart, Aha! so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Obadiah 1:12

But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor have opened wide thy mouth in the day of distress.