Proverbs 17:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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.

Proverbs 17:5

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