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Good News Translation
Proverbs 3:27
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When it is in your power,don’t withhold good from the one to whom it belongs.
Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
Whenever you are able, do good to people who need help.
Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due [its rightful recipients], When it is in your power to do it.
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in your power to do it.
Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Withhold not the good from the owners thereof, though there be power in thine hand to doe it.
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,When it is in your hand to do it.
Do not withhold good from the deserving, when it is within your power to act.
Do all you can for everyone who deserves your help.
Don't withhold good from someone entitled to it when you have in hand the power to do it.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
Do everything you possibly can for those who need help.
Do not refuse to do that which is good, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Do not withhold good from its owner when it is in the power of your hand to do.
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it .
Refuse not to do good vnto him that shulde haue it, so longe as thine hande is able to do it.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Withhold not good from him to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to doe it.
Withdraw no good thyng from them that haue nede, so long as thyne hande is able to do it.
Forbear not to do good to the poor, whensoever thy hand may have power to help him.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Nil thou forbede to do wel him that mai; if thou maist, and do thou wel.
Don't withhold good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do [it].
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in the power of your hand to do so.
Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it's in your power to help them.
Do not keep good from those who should have it, when it is in your power to do it.
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
Withhold not good from them who ask it, when it is in power of thy hand to do it:
Do not withhold him from doing good, who is able: if thou art able, do good thyself also.
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand [is] toward God to do [it].
Never walk away from someone who deserves help; your hand is God's hand for that person. Don't tell your neighbor "Maybe some other time" or "Try me tomorrow" when the money's right there in your pocket. Don't figure ways of taking advantage of your neighbor when he's sitting there trusting and unsuspecting.
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in your power to do it.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Withhold: Romans 13:7, Galatians 6:10, Titus 2:14, James 2:15, James 2:16, James 5:4
them to whom it is due: Heb. the owners thereof
in the: Genesis 31:29, Micah 2:1
Reciprocal: Genesis 14:24 - Save Deuteronomy 15:13 - General Deuteronomy 24:15 - At his Esther 6:4 - Who is in the court Ecclesiastes 11:4 - General Matthew 5:42 - General Luke 6:30 - Give Acts 16:10 - immediately Romans 13:8 - Owe
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due,.... Honour, reverence, and tribute, to civil magistrates, Romans 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 due because of their wants, and by the appointment; of God; hence called "righteousness", in some copies of Matthew 6:1; so money kept from the poor "mammon of unrighteousness", Luke 16:9. They are, as the word in the Hebrew text signifies, "the owners thereof" h: rich men are not so much proprietors of good things as they are God's alms givers or stewards to distribute to the poor; and, as often as men have opportunity, they should do good in this way to all, especially to the household of faith, Galatians 6:10; this will hold true, as of temporal good things, so of spiritual; as good advice, exhortation, and doctrine. The Vulgate Latin version is, "do not forbid him to do well that can"; which sense is favoured by Jarchi: and as we should not abstain from doing good ourselves, so neither should we forbid, hinder, or discourage others; but the former sense is best;
when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it]; not to hinder others, as Jarchi, but to do good; when a man has a sufficiency in his hands to do good with; has not only enough for himself and his family, but something to spare; when he has both opportunity and ability; and when he can do it at once and without delay, as follows.
h ×××¢××× "a dominis suis", Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A marked change in style. The continuous exhortation is replaced by a series of maxims.
From them to whom it is due - literally, as in the margin. The precept expresses the great Scriptural thought that the so-called possession of wealth is but a stewardship; that the true owners of what we call our own are those to whom, with it, we may do good. Not to relieve them is a breach of trust.
Proverbs 3:28
Procrastination is especially fatal to the giving impulse. The Septuagint adds the caution: âfor thou knowest not what the morrow will bring forth.â
Proverbs 3:29
Securely - i. e., âWith full trust,â without care or suspicion. Compare Judges 18:7, Judges 18:27.
Proverbs 3:31
A protest against the tendency to worship success, to think the lot of the âman of violenceâ enviable, and therefore to be chosen.
Proverbs 3:32
The true nature of such success. That which people admire is an abomination to Yahweh. His âsecret,â i. e., His close, intimate communion as of âfriend with friend,â is with the righteous.
Proverbs 3:33
The thought, like that which appears in Zechariah 5:3-4, and pervades the tragedies of Greek drama, is of a curse, an Ate, dwelling in a house from generation to generation, the source of ever-recurring woes. There is, possibly, a contrast between the âhouseâ or âpalaceâ of the rich oppressor and the lowly shepherdâs hut, the âsheep-coteâ 2 Samuel 7:8 ennobled only by its upright inhabitants.
Proverbs 3:34
Surely - Better, If he scorneth the scorners, i. e., Divine scorn of evil is the complement, and, as it were, the condition, of divine bounty to the lowly (compare the marginal reference and the Proverbs 1:26 note).
Proverbs 3:35
The margin conveys the thought that âfoolsâ glory in that which is indeed their shame. Others take the clause as meaning âevery fool takes up shame,â i. e., gains nothing but that.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 3:27. Withhold not good from them to whom it is due — ×××¢××× mibbealaiv, from the lords of it. But who are they? The poor. And what art thou, O rich man? Why, thou art a steward, to whom God has given substance that thou mayest divide with the poor. They are the right owners of every farthing thou hast to spare from thy own support, and that of thy family; and God has given the surplus for their sakes. Dost thou, by hoarding up this treasure, deprive the right owners of their property? If this were a civil case, the law would take thee by the throat, and lay thee up in prison; but it is a case in which GOD alone judges. And what will he do to thee? Hear! "He shall have judgment without mercy, who hath showed no mercy;" James 2:13. Read, feel, tremble, and act justly.
