a kindness, repay him. If you find nothing with which to repay him, pray for him until you know that you have repaid him.” A poet said:

Raise up your little one; let not his weakness bring you loss;
One day the turns of time will find him grown.
He will repay you or praise you—for whoever
Praises you for what you have done has repaid you.

Moreover, when a recipient repaid them with supplication or otherwise, they responded with the equivalent of