Psalms 37:25

I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children ¹  forced to search for food. ² 

Ge 17:7; Jos 1:5; 1Sa 12:22; Job 15:23; Job 32:6,7; Ps 25:13; Ps 37:28; Ps 59:15; Ps 71:9,18; Ps 94:14; Ps 109:10; Ps 112:2; Pr 13:22; Isa 13:16; Lu 1:53-55; Ac 21:16; 2Co 4:9; Phm 1:8,9; Heb 12:5,6; Heb 13:5

¹ tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

² tn Heb “or his offspring searching for food.” The expression “search for food” also appears in Lam 1:11, where Jerusalem’s refugees are forced to search for food and to trade their valuable possessions for something to eat.