Deuteronomy 24:15 · World English Bible
In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
An obligation with no deadline is a should, and a should has never fed anyone's household tonight. Attach a time to a duty and it changes category.
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An obligation with no deadline is a should, and a should has never fed anyone's household tonight.
Attach a time to a duty and it changes category. Everyone agrees a worker deserves his pay, and agreement by itself has never once put bread on a table, because a good intention waits for a convenient morning while a laborer's children eat tonight or they do not.
Sundown does the work that sincerity cannot. A clock that short exists because a poor man has set his heart on those coins, so the delay is hunger rather than an accounting matter, and the cry goes up to Yahweh, which makes this a standard somebody holds rather than a policy everybody approves. Leave a good intention undated and someone else pays for your timing.
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Who is quietly counting on something from you that you have never actually put a date on?
Withholding a worker's wages when they are due is listed among serious wrongs, because the labourer is counting on that money tonight. The lateness itself is the injury.
The superior man is troubled by the gap between what he has undertaken and what he has delivered. A duty acknowledged and left undated has not been discharged.
Do the good thing now, while it is in your power, and stop postponing your own character to a more convenient day that may not come.
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