Proverbs 19:17

“Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, etc.] These words are spoken not to the wicked man, (<202415>Proverbs 24:15); but to the just man, or Solomon’s son, or the children of Wisdom; for by the “enemy” is meant such who are at enmity with the people of God, as the seed of the serpent, and those after the flesh, are: and when these “fall”, saints should not “rejoice”; as when they fall into sin; for so to do would be to act as wicked “charity [which] rejoiceth not in iniquity”, (<461306>1 Corinthians 13:6): or rather when they fill into calamity and distress; for this is also the part which wicked men act towards the people of God, and should not be imitated in; (see Obidiah 1:12 <330708>Micah…”

“(Compare Pro 14:21; Psa 37:26). hath pity--shown by acts (compare Margin).”

“Note the original greatness of the thought. We give to the poor. Have we lost our gift? No, what we gave, we have lent to One who will repay with usury. Compare the yet nobler truth of our Lord’s teaching Matthew 25:40. return to 'Top of Page'”

“that hath: Pro 14:21, Pro 28:8, Pro 28:27; Sa2 12:6; Ecc 11:1 lendeth: Pro 11:24, Pro 11:25, Pro 28:27; Deu 15:7-14; Isa 58:7-11; Mat 10:41, Mat 10:42, Mat 25:40; Co2 9:6-8; Phi 4:17; Heb 6:10 that which he hath given: or, his deed Proverbs 19:18”

“These verses we take together. But we have no other reason for making a pause at Pro 19:21, than that Pro 19:22 is analogous to Pro 19:17, and thus presents itself to us as an initial verse. Pro 19:17 17 He lendeth to Jahve who is compassionate to the lowly, And his bounty He requites to him. As at Pro 14:31, חונן is part. Kal. The Masoretically exact form of the word is חונן (as ואוזל, Pro 20:14) with Mercha on the first syllable, on which the tone is thrown back, and the העמדה on the second. The Roman legal phrase, mutui datione contrahitur obligatio, serves to explain the fundamental conception of לוה, mutuo accipere, and הלוה, mutuum dare (vid., Pro 22:7). The construction, Exo 22:24,…”