Proverbs 3:27 (BSB)

Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

From Proverbs 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 3:27

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 3:27-35: True wisdom consists in the due discharge of our duty towards man, as well as towards God, in honesty as well as piety, and therefore we have here divers excellent precepts of wisdom which relate to our neighbour. I. We must render to all their due, both in justice and charity, and not delay to do it (Pro 3:27, Pro 3:28): "Withhold not good from...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 3:27: Withhold not good from them to whom it is due,.... Honour, reverence, and tribute, to civil magistrates, Rom 13:7; just payment of debts to creditors, and alms to the poor, which, by what follows, seems to be chiefly intended; and the Septuagint render it, "do not abstain to do well to the needy;'' and Aben Ezra interprets it of the poor; to them alms are...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 3:27: Promptly fulfil all obligations both of justice and charity (compare Jam 2:15-16).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 3:27: Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it]. (m) Not only from them to whom the possession belongs but also you shall not keep it from them who have need of the use of it.