Proverbs 10:3 (BSB)

The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.

From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 10:3

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:2-3: 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, Pro 10:2.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:3: 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 in other lands; and as the apostles, particularly the Apostle Paul, were often in hunger and thirst, yet not so as to be destroyed by...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:3: (Compare Psa 37:16-20). The last clause is better: "He will repel the greedy desires of the wicked."
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 10:3: The LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. (b) Though he permits the just to want for a time, yet he will send him comfort in due season.