Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 31:29

29. If I rejoyced at the destruction of him that hated me , or lift up my self when evil found him:

I was so far from malice and revenging my self of mine Enemy, which is the common and allowed practise of ungodly men, that I did not so much as des[illegible: 1+ letters]re or delight in his ruine, when it was brought upon him by other hands. Compare Exod 23. 4. Prov. 24. [illegible: 1+ letters]7, 18. Whence we may judge whether the great Duty of loving and forgiving our Enemies be a peculiar Precept of Christianity, or whether it be a natural and moral Duty, and a part and act of that Charity which now is, and ever was the Duty of one man to another in all ages.

Heb. stirred up my self to rejoyce and insult over his misery.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word]. 17.