Obadiah 1:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

thou shouldest not have looked on, &c. All these are Prohibitives in Hebrew: i.e. they are addressed to Edom as from. spectator looking on and saying; "Look not thou, "&c.

children. sons.

spoken proudly. Hebrew enlarged thy mouth [with laughter]. Compare Psalms 35:21.Isaiah 57:4.Ezekiel 35:13.

Obadiah 1:12

12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spokenb proudly in the day of distress.