“I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”
The psalmist reflects 'I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.' The reflection based on personal observation across a lifetime affirms that God provides for the righteous. The specific mention that children are not reduced to begging suggests that God's provision extends across generations. This verse invokes the psalmist's experience as testimony to God's faithfulness.
Church Fathers on Psalms 37:25
On the first part of the psalm. 1. With terror do they hear of the coming of the last day, who will not be secure by living well: and who fain would live ill, long. But it was for useful purposes that God willed that day to remain unknown; that the heart may be ever ready to expect that of which it knows it is to come, but knows not when it is to come. Seeing, however, that our Lord Jesus Christ was sent to us to be our “Master,” He said, that “of the day not even the Son of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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