3The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
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Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? …
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. …
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2-3)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 , Prov. 10:2. The treasures of wicked people, much more the treasure which they have made themselves masters of by any wicked people, by oppression of fraud, though it be ever so muc…
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