The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.
Cross References
Psalm 37:26They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
Psalm 112:5It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
Psalm 112:9He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.
Treasury of Scripture
The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.
borroweth
Deuteronomy 28:12,43,44
The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow…
2 Kings 4:1-5
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen…
Nehemiah 5:1-5
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews…
righteous
Psalm 112:5,9
A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion…
Deuteronomy 15:9-11
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee…
Job 31:16-20
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; …
