²⁷ Do not withhold good from its owner^[a]
    when it is in the power of your hand to do.
²⁸ Do not say to your neighbor,
    “Go and return and tomorrow I will give it,”
    when it is with you.^[b]

²⁴ There is one who gives yet grows richer,^[a]
    but he who withholds what is right^[b] only finds need.
²⁵ A person of blessing will be enriched,
    and he who gives water also will be refreshed.
²⁶ He who withholds grain, the people curse him,
    but a blessing is for the head of him who sells.

²² He who is good will leave an inheritance to his grandchildren,^[a]
    and stored up for the righteous is the wealth of a sinner.

²¹ He who despises his neighbor is a sinner,
    but he who has mercy on the poor blesses him.

¹⁶ The gift of a person will open doors for him,
    and before the great, it gives him access.

¹⁷ He who lends to Yahweh is he who is kind to the poor,
    and his benefits he will repay to him.

¹³ He who closes his ear from the cry of the poor,
    he also will cry out and not be heard.

⁹ He who is generous^[a] will be blessed,
    for he gives to the poor from his own bread.

¹⁴ Like clouds and wind when there is no rain,
    so too is a man who boasts in a gift of deception.

²⁷ For he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking,
    but for he^[a] who turns his eyes, there are many curses.