Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker (Proverbs 14:31 ); and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. So Tyrus is threatened, because she was glad at Jerusalem's calamities, saying "I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste" (Ezekiel 26:2). And Edom similarly (Obadiah 1:12). He who "mocketh" at a work, mocketh the workman. God especially warns against insulting over the poor, because it is inhuman, and it betrays a pride that forgets one's own frailty and liability to calamity, to tread upon those who are prostrated by God's afflicting hand (Psalms 109:16; Isaiah 47:6).