Proverbs 14:31 (BSB)

Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

From Proverbs 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 14:31

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 14:31: God is here pleased to interest himself more than one would imagine in the treatment given to the poor. 1. He reckons himself affronted in the injuries that are done them. Whosoever he be that wrongs a poor man, taking advantage against him because he is poor and cannot help himself, let him know that he puts an affront upon his Maker.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 14:31: He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker,.... That does him any injury, either by scoffing at him, and reproaching him for his poverty; or by vexatious law suits; or by withholding from him his wages; or not giving him that relief which he ought: such an one not only injures the poor man; but reproaches God that made him, not only a man, but...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 14:31: reproacheth his Maker--who is the God of such, as well as of the rich (Pro 22:2; Job 31:15; and specially Sa1 2:8; Psa 113:7).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 14:31: Pro 14:31 31 He who oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; And whosoever is merciful to the poor, it is an honour to him. Line first is repeated in Pro 17:5 somewhat varied, and the relation of the idea in 31b is as Pro 19:17, according to which וּמכבּדו is the predicate and חונן אביון the subject (Symmachus, Targ., Jerome, Venet., Luther), not the reverse...