25The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25)Note, 1. It is the happiness of the righteous that they shall have enough and that they know when they have enough. They desire not to be surfeited, but, being moderate in their desires, they are soon satisfied. Nature is content with a little and grace with less; enough is as good as a feast. Those that feed on the bread of life, that feast on the promises, meet with abundant satisfaction of soul…
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