Do Not Say, Come Back Tomorrow

📝Reflection

If the previous verse said not to withhold good, this one points to its timing. To postpone to tomorrow what you could give now is, in the end, the same as not giving. Postponement carries a faint scent of power: it makes the other come once more, makes them wait. The Hebrew sage did not miss that small lording-over. Help has an expiration date, and late help is only half a help. To hand over now what is in hand now — that immediacy keeps goodwill pure.