8He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
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Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; …
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8)Note, 1. That which is ill-got, though it may increase much, will not last long. A man may perhaps raise a great estate, in a little time, by usury and extortion, fraud, and oppression of the poor, but it will not continue; he gathers it for himself, but it shall prove to have been gathered for somebody else that he has no kindness for. His estate shall go to decay, and another man’s shall be rais…
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