And personal attention is made more likely. By keeping charity decentralized, deinstitutionalized, and private, everyone concerned is saved from the anguish of graft, corruption, and red tape. Fourth, Ruth obtained mercy. It was not an entitlement. In fact, Biblical charity is rooted in a providential perspective of discernment and discretion.
Biblical charity knows nothing of promiscuous handouts to sluggards.
The lazy, concupiscent, or improvident could expect no saving intervention of some omnipresent, benevolent, and spend-thrift bureaucrat. If he worked, he ate. If not, then he would suffer the consequences of his own irresponsibility and sloth. Biblical charity always exercises discernment and discretion. Standing within the covenant, the gleaner had the privilege of provision and care.