I think in Williams's text, it appears as if he's making the pretty common assumption that there's just a chunk of society that is poor and the question is what to do about it, which I'm proposing is the wrong way of thinking about the question. The right way of thinking about the question is how to build distributive institutions that ensure there isn't any poverty. Poverty is never just the result of the behavior of an individual—it's the combination of that behavior under a set of particular distributive institutions. God was commanding a set of distributive institutions for his people that would ensure that regardless of people's situation, their needs would be met. It's certainly true that we don't live in a theocracy, but I think it's nevertheless true that we can see God's wisdom at work: he knows that if you structure how resources are allocated in society well, there shouldn't be any poverty. That is certainly wisdom applicable to democracies.