The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
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Gill's Exposition
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish,.... Or to perish by famine: not but that good men may be afflicted with it, as Jacob and his sons were, when the famine was in Egypt and…
Barnes' Notes
Casteth away ... - Better, “overturns, disappoints the strong desire of the wicked.” Tantalus-like, they never get the enjoyment they thirst after.
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…
Cambridge Bible
to famish Comp. Psa 37:25; and for the soul's highest hungering, Mat 5:6.
casteth away the substance Rather, thrusteth away (as Gehazi would have done the Shunammite, 2Ki 4:27) the desire, R.V.
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