²⁵ The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

¹⁰ The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

³ The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

⁵ 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.

⁸ 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.

¹¹ So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

²⁴ 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.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

¹⁴ Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

³⁴ So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

¹⁸ The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

¹⁹ They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

¹⁶ A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

³ Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

⁴⁸ Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.