Proverbs 17:5

his Maker Comp. Proverbs 14:31.

glad at calamities "It belonged to the Greek mind in its fertility of combination, to express it (the temper here spoken of) by the single word ἐπιχαιρεκακία (Arist. Eth. Nicom. ii. 6), well rendered by the German -schadenfreude"." Dean Plumptre, Speaker's Comm.

The connecting link of thought between the two clauses of the verse is that poverty and calamity proceed alike from God, so that to mock at the one, or be glad at the other, is to reproach Him and to incur His displeasure.