Proverbs 19:17 (BSB)

Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.

From Proverbs 19. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 19:17

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 19:17: Here is, I. The duty of charity described. It includes two things: - 1. Compassion, which is the inward principle of charity in the heart; it is to have pity on the poor. Those that have not a penny for the poor, yet may have pity for them, a charitable concern and sympathy; and, if a man give all his goods to feed the poor...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 19:17: He that hath pity unto the poor lendeth unto the Lord,.... A man, whose heart is full of compassion to the poor, and whose hands distribute to their necessities, from a true principle of love and charity to men, and with a view to the glory of God, and not from any selfish principle and with a end; such a man's gift to the poor...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 19:17: (Compare Pro 14:21; Psa 37:26). hath pity--shown by acts (compare Margin).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 19:17: Pro 19:17 17 He lendeth to Jahve who is compassionate to the lowly, And his bounty He requites to him. As at Pro 14:31, חונן is part. Kal. The Masoretically exact form of the word is חונן (as ואוזל, Pro 20:14) with Mercha on the first syllable, on which the tone is thrown back, and the העמדה on the second.