Proverbs 11:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He that withholdeth corn In a time of scarcity, when others need and desire it; the people shall curse him He shall fall into the popular hatred, and be loaded with many curses; but blessing Namely, the blessing of God, which the people shall earnestly ask for him; shall be upon the head of him that selleth it Upon reasonable terms. “The truth of this,” says Dr. Dodd, “is experienced in all times of scarcity. They who have the hardness of heart to withhold their corn at such seasons are accursed of God and men. The justice of God fails not to display itself upon those who are insensible to the miseries of the public, and who are not afraid to bring upon themselves the hatred and curses of the people:” see Amos 8:5-7, and Calmet.