Proverbs 3:27

(f) Sixth Discourse: — Exhortation to Charity, Peace, Contentment (Proverbs 3:27).

(27) Them to whom it is due — i.e., the poor and needy. An exhortation to us to make to ourselves “friends of the mammon of unrighteousness” (uncertain riches, Luke 16:9), remembering that we are not absolute owners, but “stewards of the manifold grace of God” (1 Peter 4:10), so that when we “fail,” i.e., die, “they,” the friends we have made by our liberality, may welcome us to heaven.