Job 31:29

Job's Final Defense Continued

²⁸ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. ²⁹ If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil found him: ³⁰ Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

Lifted Up

Job

No

Proverbs 17:5

He that mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 24:17-18

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

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, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

2 Samuel 16:5-8

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.

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 returned into my own 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 shouldst not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldst thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldst thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.