Proverbs 10:3
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; but the sinful desires of the wicked will he cast away.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2Treasures of wickedness will not profit aught; but righteousness will deliver from death.
4He becometh poor that laboreth with an indolent hand, but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Cross References
Job 5:20In famine he redeemeth thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 20:5That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date, and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only for a moment.
Job 20:28The product of his house will be banished, flowing away on the day of his wrath.
Psalms 33:19To deliver from death their soul, and to keep them alive in famine.
Psalms 34:10(34:11) The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but those who seek the Lord shall not want any good.
Psalms 37:19They shall not be made ashamed in the time of unhappiness; and in the days of famine shall they be satisfied.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:3-4
2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. 3 The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. These two verses speak to the same purport, and the latter may be the reason of the former. 1. That wealth which men get unjustly will do them no good, because God will blast it: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, v. 2 . The treasures of wicked people, much more the treasure which they have made themselves masters of… Read the whole commentary →