Proverbs 17:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Mocketh the poor; derideth or reproacheth him with or for his poverty. His Maker; God, who by his providence made him poor. See the same assertion Proverbs 14:31. At calamities; at the miseries of other men.

Proverbs 17:5

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