John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Obadiah 1:12
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother ,.... The day of his calamity, distress, and destruction, as afterwards explained; that is, with delight and satisfaction, as pleased with it, and rejoicing at it; but rather should have grieved and mourned, and as fearing their turn would be next: or, "do not look" F20 אל תרא "ne aspicias", Junius & Tremellius; "ne aspicito", Piscator; "ne spectes", Cocceius. ; so some read it in the imperative, and in like manner... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-16
When we have read Edom's doom, no less than utter ruin, it is natural to ask, Why, what evil has he done? What is the ground of God's controversy with him? Many things, no doubt, were amiss in Edom; they were a sinful people, and a people laden with iniquity. But that one single crime which is laid to their charge, as filling their measure and bringing this ruin upon them, that for which they here stand indicted, of which they are convicted, and for which they are condemned, is the injury they... read more