Proverbs 29:14 Commentary and Bible Study

Here is something full of beauty and worthy to be admired. Here is a king, lifted up high above the needy, and having no reason to concern himself with their wants and worries. His throne is established firmly and the poor are far away from him, and their troubles unable to affect him. And yet he turns his eye on them out of pure grace and makes their troubles his own, for the state of the poor and needy is something which his inner compassion will not allow him to ignore. When the verse says that he judges the poor, the meaning is that he intervenes on their behalf, considering their case and ruling in their favour against those who would take advantage of them. How many kings have not bothered to do such a thing but have looked the other way, for it did not suite them to defend those who could give them nothing in return? But God sees such acts of kindness and he rewards those who love those who cannot repay in this world: ‘When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just’ (Luke 14:12-14).