The Blessings of Wisdom
Proverbs 3:27
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.Or from its owners
- KJV
- ¶ Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.them…: Heb. the owners thereof
- WEB
- Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
- ASV
- Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
- LSV
- Do not withhold good from its owners, || When your hand [is] toward God to do [it].
- YLT
- Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand [is] toward God to do [it].
- DBY
- Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
- DRC
- Do not withhold him from doing good, who is able: if thou art able, do good thyself also.
- GNV
- Withhold not the good from the owners thereof, though there be power in thine hand to doe it.
- JPS
- Withhold not good from him to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
- LXXE
- Forbear not to do good to the poor, whensoever thy hand may have power to help him.
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- Written (Ketiv): יָדֶיךָ (“hands your”). Read aloud (Qere): יָדְךָ֣ (“hand your”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads יָדְיךָ֣; read aloud (Qere) reads יָדְךָ֣ (“hand your”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- אַל־תִּמְנַע־ט֥וֹב מִבְּעָלָ֑יו בִּהְי֨וֹת לְאֵ֖ל ידיך לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃Read aloud as (qere): יָדְךָ֣
- LXX-Br
- Μὴ ἀπόσχῃ εὖ ποιεῖν ἐνδεῆ, ἡνίκα ἂν ἔχῃ ἡ χείρ σου βοηθεῖν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Galatians 6:10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
- James 2:15–16Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that?
- Romans 13:7Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
- James 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
- Genesis 31:29I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
- Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).