SEV Biblia, Chapter 25:35
Y cuando tu hermano empobreciere, y se acogiere a ti, tú lo recibirás; como peregrino y extranjero vivirá contigo.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 35. And if thy brother be waxen poor , etc.] An Israelite, as Aben Ezra, be reduced to a low estate, through afflictions in body, or in family, or through losses in trade, or want of business, or through one providence or another: and fallen in decay with thee ; in his worldly substance: or “his hand wavers”, or “fails” f885 ; so that he cannot support himself and his family, has not a sufficiency, or it is not in the power of his hands to do it; and it is not owing to sloth and negligence, but to unavoidable want and necessity: then thou shalt relieve him ; not merely by sympathizing with him, but by communicating to him, and distributing to his necessities; holding him up that he may not utterly fall, and strengthening his hands, that he may have a supply for his present wants: [yea, though he be] a stranger or a sojourner ; whether a proselyte of righteousness, who is circumcised, and in all things conforms to the true religion; or a proselyte of the gate, who takes it upon him not to worship idols, and eat things that die of themselves, as Jarchi notes: that he may live with thee ; continue in the land of Canaan, and not be obliged to quit it, and be laid under temptations of apostatizing from the true religion professed by him, and so far as he is come into it, which would bring a worse death than corporeal upon him; or that he may have a livelihood in some tolerable manner at least, and even live comfortably and cheerfully.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 35-38 - Poverty and decay are great grievances, and very common; the poor y have always with you. Thou shalt relieve him; by sympathy, pitying the poor; by service, doing for them; and by supply, giving to the according to their necessity, and thine ability. Poor debtors must no be oppressed. Observe the arguments here used against extortion: "Fea thy God." Relieve the poor, "that they may live with thee;" for the may be serviceable to thee. The rich can as ill spare the poor, as the poor can the rich. It becomes those that have received mercy to sho mercy.
Original Hebrew
וכי 3588 ימוך 4134 אחיך 251 ומטה 4131 ידו 3027 עמך 5973 והחזקת 2388 בו גר 1616 ותושׁב 8453 וחי 2421 עמך׃ 5973
