Job 31:29

²⁷ so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

²⁸ this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

³⁰ I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

³¹ if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
KJV: If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
WEB: “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him
ASV: If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
DARBY: If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;
BLB: If I have rejoiced in the destruction of one hating me, or raised myself up because evil found him—

ÅB: Har jeg gledet meg ved min fiendes uferd og jublet når ulykken rammet ham?
OTB: Har jeg gledet meg over min fiendes fall,
Eller blitt glad når ulykke fant ham?
B1930: Har jeg gledet mig ved min fiendes uferd og jublet når ulykken rammet ham?

Proverbs 24:17–18
Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
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Proverbs 17:5
He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
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Psalms 35:13–14
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
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Obadiah 1:12
But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
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Psalms 35:25–26
Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”
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2 Samuel 1:12
They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
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2 Samuel 4:10–11
when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!
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2 Samuel 16:5–8
As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.
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