John Trapp on Obadiah 1:13

Verſe 13. Thou ſhouldeſt not have entered into the gate, &c.] But have looked upon them as my people, though under a cloud of calamity; which will ſoon blow over. To enter therefore into their gates for prey, and ſpoil, is to burden your ſelves with that burdenſome ſtone, that ſhall break you: to drink of that poiſonous cup that ſhall bane you: to lay your hands upon that harth of fire, that will burn you, Zech. 12.2, 3, 6 Look to it, hands off, keep you farre from ſo evil a matter, leſt it prove as that gold of Tholouſe, a miſchief to all that meddle with it.Aurum Tholoſanum.

thou ſhouldest not have looked,] See Verſe 12. The repetition ſhews the hainouſneſſe of the ſinne. The Holy Ghoſt doth not open his mouth in vain (whatever Iob did, chap. 36.16.) nor multiply words without reaſon.

In the day of their calamity.] This is thrice mentioned: to ſhew how ſenſible God was of this ſavage dealing of theirs with his poor people, who now lay under the ſtrokes and ſtripes of a diſpleaſed mercy. The Hebrew word here rendred calamitie, ſignifieth a fog, vapour, or mistie cloud, Gen. 2.6. Iob 36.27. and by a Metaphor, it is put for affliction and miſery, as it is alſo in Latine.

Tempora ſi fuerint nubila, ſolus eris,Ovid. Athanaſ. Nubecula eſt, citò tranſibit ſaid that Father.