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The phrase refers to Edom’s attitude and actions toward Judah in its calamity, described as looking on with joy and speaking proudly in the day of distress (Obadiah 1:12). Obadiah frames this as wrongdoing against a “brother,” tying it to Edom’s violence against Jacob (Obadiah 1:10).
12But don`t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don`t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don`t speak proudly in the day of distress.