Proverbs 14:21

“An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning, etc.] Of a man’s setting out in the world in trade and business; and which sometimes is got lawfully, and this must be excepted from this proverb; but generally what is got hastily and in a short time is got unlawfully, and so does not prosper. Some Jewish interpreters, as Gersom, understand it of an inheritance which comes to persons from their friends, without any labour or industry of theirs; and which they are not careful to keep, but, as it lightly comes, it lightly goes: here is a various reading; our version follows the marginal reading, and which is followed by the Targum, Jarchi, and Gersom, and by the Septuagint, Syriac, and…”

“For such contempt of the poor is contrasted as sinful with the virtuous compassion of the good.”

“Despiseth - That does not pity and relieve the poor. Proverbs 14:23”

“14:21 blessed are those who help the poor: See also 3:27-28; 11:24; 28:27; 29:7, 14.”

“that despiseth: Pro 11:12, Pro 17:5, Pro 18:3; Job 31:13-15, Job 35:5, Job 35:6; Psa 22:24; Luk 18:9; Jam 2:5, Jam 2:6, Jam 2:14-16 he that hath: Pro 14:31, Pro 11:24, Pro 11:25, Pro 19:17, Pro 28:27; Psa 41:1, Psa 41:2, Psa 112:5, Psa 112:9; Ecc 11:1, Ecc 11:2; Isa 58:7-12; Dan 4:27; Mat 25:34-46; Luk 6:30-36; Act 20:35; Heb 6:12; Jo1 3:17-22 Proverbs 14:22”

“21 Whoever despiseth his neighbour committeth sin; But whoever hath compassion on the suffering - blessings on him! One should regard every human being, especially such as God has placed near to him, as a being having the same origin, as created in the image of God, and of the same lofty destination, and should consider himself as under obligation to love him. He who despiseth his neighbour (write בּז with Metheg, and vid., regarding the constr. with dat. object. Pro 6:30, cf. Pro 11:12; Pro 13:13) sins in this respect, that he raises himself proudly and unwarrantably above him; that the honour and love he shows to him he measures not by the rule of duty and of necessity, but according to…”