Proverbs 17:5 (BSB)

He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

From Proverbs 17. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 17:5

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 17:5: See here, 1. What a great sin those are guilty of who trample upon the poor, who ridicule their wants and the meanness of their appearance, upbraid them with their poverty, and take advantage from their weakness to be abusive and injurious to them.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 17:5: Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker,.... He that mocks the poor for his poverty, Upbraids him with his mean appearance, scoffs at the clothes he wears or food he eats, such an one reproaches his Creator; or, as the Targum, "provokes his Creator to anger;'' him who is his own Creator as well as the poor man's; him who made the poor man, both...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 17:5: (Compare Pro 14:31). glad at calamities--rejoicing in others' evil. Such are rightly punished by God, who knows their hearts.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 17:5: Pro 17:5 5 He that mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; He that rejoiceth over calamity remains not unpunished. Line first is a variation of Pro 14:31. God is, according to Pro 22:2, the creator of the poor as well as of the rich.