Psalm 37:23
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Better the little that the righteous has than the wealth of all the wicked.
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For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but ADONAI upholds the righteous.
18
ADONAI knows what the wholehearted suffer, but their inheritance lasts forever.
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They will not be distressed when times are hard; when famine comes, they will have plenty.
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For the wicked will perish; ADONAI's enemies will be like sheep fat, ending up as smoke, finished.
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The wicked borrows and doesn't repay, but the righteous is generous and gives.
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For those blessed by [ADONAI] will inherit the land, but those cursed by him will be cut off.
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ADONAI directs a person's steps, and he delights in his way.
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He may stumble, but he won't fall headlong, for ADONAI holds him by the hand.
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I have been young; now I am old; yet not once have I seen the righteous abandoned or his descendants begging for bread.
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All day long he is generous and lends, and his descendants are blessed.
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Psalm 37:16-26 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 37
\\<<[A Psalm] of David>>\\. This psalm, it is very probable, was written at the same time, and upon the same occasion, with the former; and describes the different states of good and bad men; and is full of exhortations, instructions, and advice to the people of God; intermixed with various encouraging promises. A late learned writer {h} thinks it was written for Mephibosheth's consolation under Ziba's calumny. {h} Delaney's Life of King David, vol. 2. p. 219.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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