Proverbia 34:9

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Anima autem mea exsultabit in Domino,
et delectabitur super salutari suo.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Dixit enim : Non placebit vir Deo, etiam si cucurrerit cum eo.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
[34:10] IOD. Timete Dominum, sancti eius, quoniam non est inopia timentibus eum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fear: Psalms 22:23, Psalms 31:23, Psalms 89:7, Genesis 22:12, Isaiah 8:13, Isaiah 8:14, Hosea 3:5, Revelation 15:3, Revelation 15:4

for: Psalms 23:1, Luke 12:30-32, Romans 8:32, 1 Corinthians 3:22, 1 Corinthians 3:23, Philippians 4:19

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 10:12 - fear 1 Samuel 30:19 - General 1 Kings 17:6 - the ravens Psalms 37:3 - be fed Psalms 84:11 - no Psalms 111:5 - hath given Psalms 145:19 - fulfil Proverbs 10:3 - will Proverbs 19:23 - fear Proverbs 22:4 - By Isaiah 58:11 - and satisfy Jeremiah 37:21 - and that Matthew 6:33 - and all Luke 12:31 - General Luke 22:35 - lacked Acts 4:34 - was

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O fear the Lord, ye his saints,.... Who are sanctified by his Spirit, and so are openly and manifestly his; these are exhorted to fear the Lord with reverence and godly fear; and great reason there is why they should fear him, since he is King of saints, and fear is due to him from them; and seeing they have received many instances of grace and goodness from him, and therefore should fear him for his goodness's sake; and besides they, and they only, know him, and have the grace of fear in them, and so only can exercise it on him;

for [there is] no want to them that fear him; not in spirituals, since so much goodness is laid up for them; the heart of God is towards them, his secret is with them, his eye is upon them, and the sun of righteousness arises on them; and both grace and glory are given to them; nor in temporals, since godliness, or the fear of God, has the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O fear the Lord - Reverence him; honor him; confide in him. Compare Psalms 31:23.

Ye his saints - His holy ones. All who profess to be his friends. This exhortation is addressed especially to the saints, or to the pious, because the speaker professed to be a friend of God, and had had personal experience of the truth of what he is here saying. It is the testimony of one child of God addressed to others, to encourage them by the result of his own experience.

For there is no want to them that fear him - All their needs will be abundantly supplied. Sooner or later all their real necessities will be met, and God will bestow upon them every needed blessing. The statement here cannot be regarded as absolutely and universally true - that is, it cannot mean that they who fear the Lord will never, in any instance, be hungry or thirsty, or destitute of raiment or of a comfortable home; but it is evidently intended to be a general affirmation, and is in accordance with the other statements which occur in the Bible about the advantages of true religion in securing temporal as well as spiritual blessings from God. Thus, in 1 Timothy 4:8, it is said, “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.” Thus, in Isaiah 33:16, it is said of the righteous man, “Bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.”

And so, in Psalms 37:25, David records the result of his own observation at the end of a long life, “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.” But while these statements should not be interpreted as affirming absolutely that no child of God will ever be in need of food, or drink, or raiment, or home, or friends, yet it is generally true that the needs of the righteous are supplied, often in an unexpected manner, and from an unexpected source. It is true that virtue and religion conduce to temporal prosperity; and it is almost universally true that the inmates of charity-houses and prisons are neither the pious, nor the children of the pious. These houses are the refuge, to a great extent, of the intemperate, the godless, and the profligate - or of the families of the intemperate, the godless, and the profligate; and if all such persons were to be discharged from those abodes, our almshouses and prisons would soon become tenantless. A community could most easily provide for all those who have been trained in the ways of religion, but who are reduced to poverty by fire, or by flood, or by ill health; and they would most cheerfully do it. Nothing can be more true than that if a man wished to do all that could be done in the general uncertainty of human affairs to secure prosperity, it would be an advantage to him to be a virtuous and religious man. God never blesses or prospers a sinner as such, though he often does it notwithstanding the fact that he is a sinner; but he does and will bless and prosper a righteous man as such, and because he is righteous. Compare the notes at 1 Timothy 4:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 34:9. There is no want to them that fear him. — He who truly fears God loves him; and he who loves God obeys him, and to him who fears, loves, and obeys God, there can be no want of things essential to his happiness, whether spiritual or temporal, for this life or for that which is to come. This verse is wanting in the Syriac.