Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
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.
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...
(Compare Pro 14:31). glad at calamities--rejoicing in others' evil. Such are rightly punished by God, who knows their hearts.