20She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
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Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-31)This description of the virtuous woman is designed to show what wives the women should make and what wives the men should choose; it consists of twenty-two verses, each beginning with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet in order, as some of the Psalms , which makes some think it was no part of the lesson which Lemuel’s mother taught him, but a poem by itself, written by some other hand, and perhaps ha…
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