Proverbs 10:3
Yahweh does not allow righteous people to starve, but he will prevent wicked people from getting what they want.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
4Lazy people soon become poor; it is those who work hard who become rich.
Cross References
Job 5:20When there is a famine, he will not allow you to die, and when there is a war, you will not be killed [MTY].
Job 20:5wicked people like you do not continue to rejoice for a long time, ungodly people are happy only for a ◄moment/very short time► [HYP]?
Job 20:28When God punishes [MTY] people, all the possessions in the wicked people’s houses will be carried away by a flood.
Psalms 33:19He saves them [SYN] from dying before they should die and preserves them when there is a famine.
Psalms 34:10Lions are usually very strong, but sometimes even young lions are hungry and become weak, but those who trust in Yahweh will ◄have everything/not lack any good thing► [LIT] that they need.
Psalms 37:19They will survive when calamities occur; when there are famines, they will still have plenty to eat.
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 →