“Blessed is he that considereth the poor.”

"Poverty begins where plenty ends. A man is not to be counted “poor” because he dwells in a cottage, lives simply, dresses plainly, earns his children’s bread by the sweat of his brow, as long as his work is healthy, his food plentiful and wholesome, and he can keep out of debt, and have a little to give to God’s work and to a needy neighbour. But when strength is overtasked, when toil and thrift cannot keep the wolf from the door, and work fails or health breaks down, and the question has to be faced how long the home can be kept together,—then, indeed, poverty is felt to be one of the bitterest forms of the curse which sin has brought into human life."

From Psalm 41

The Pulpit Commentary: Psalms Vol. I. 2004 (H. D. M. Spence-Jones, Ed.) (323–324). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.