Solomon
Proverbs 19:17ESV·traditional attribution

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.

Matthew Henry Presbyterian

Here is, I. The duty of charity described. It includes two things: - 1. Compassion, which is the inward principle of charity in the heart; it is to have pity on the poor. Those that have not a penny for the poor, yet may have pity for them, a charitable concern and sympathy; and, if a man give all his goods to feed the poor...

John Gill Reformed Baptist

He that hath pity unto the poor lendeth unto the Lord,.... A man, whose heart is full of compassion to the poor, and whose hands distribute to their necessities, from a true principle of love and charity to men, and with a view to the glory of God, and not from any selfish principle and with a end; such a man's gift to the poor...

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed

(Compare Pro 14:21; Psa 37:26). hath pity--shown by acts (compare Margin).