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Obadiah 12

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12“aNow do not look on your brother’s day with triumph,

The day of his misfortune.

And bdo not be glad over the sons of Judah

In the day when they perish;

And cdo not 1let your mouth speak great things

In the day of their distress.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit make your mouth large

Cross references

  1. aMic 4:11; 7:10
  2. bProv 17:5; Ezek 35:15; 36:5
  3. cPs 31:18; Ezek 35:12

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But do not gloat over the day of your brother

in the day of his misfortune;

do not rejoice over the people of Judah

in the day of their ruin;

do not boast

in the day of distress.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You should not gloat over your brother

in the day of his misfortune,

nor rejoice over the people of Judah

in the day of their destruction,

nor boast so much

in the day of their trouble.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Do not gloat over your brother

in the day of his calamity;

do not rejoice over the people of Judah

in the day of their destruction;

do not boastfully mock

in the day of distress.

NLTNew Living Translation

“You should not have gloated

when they exiled your relatives to distant lands.

You should not have rejoiced

when the people of Judah suffered such misfortune.

You should not have spoken arrogantly

in that terrible time of trouble.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But you should not have gloated over your brother’s day, on the day of his misfortune, and you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah on the day of their perishing, and you should not have opened your mouth wide on the day of distress.

KJV 1900King James Version

But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger;

Neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction;

Neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.