Proverbs 14:21 (BSB)

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who shows kindness to the poor.

From Proverbs 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 14:21

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 14:21: See here how men's character and condition are measured and judged of by their conduct towards their poor neighbours. 1. Those that look upon them with contempt have here assigned them a bad character, and their condition will be accordingly: He that despises his neighbour because he is low in the world, because he is of a mean extraction, rustic education, and makes but a...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 14:21: He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth,.... He that despiseth his neighbour in his heart, speaks slightly of him, overlooks him, is not friendly to him, will neither converse with him, nor relieve him in his necessity; for it seems to be understood of his poor neighbour; and so the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "he that despiseth the poor"; that despises him for his...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 14:21: For such contempt of the poor is contrasted as sinful with the virtuous compassion of the good.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 14:21: Pro 14:21 21 Whoever despiseth his neighbour committeth sin; But whoever hath compassion on the suffering - blessings on him! One should regard every human being, especially such as God has placed near to him, as a being having the same origin, as created in the image of God, and of the same lofty destination, and should consider himself as under obligation to love him.