Proverbs 10:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; will preserve them from famine, according to his promises, Psalms 34:10, and elsewhere, which, as other temporal promises, is not to be understood simply and universally, but with this limitation, except this be necessary for God's glory, which in all reason should overrule the creatures good, and for their own greater benefit. For, to say nothing of eternal felicities which follow every good man's death, it is certainly in some times and eases a less evil for men to be killed with famine, than to survive to see and feel those miseries which are coming upon them, and upon the land where they live. The substance, as this word is used, Psalms 52:7, or the wickedness, i.e. the wealth gotten by wickedness; as righteousness, Proverbs 10:2, is by divers understood of an estate got with righteousness. Of the wicked; who by that means shall be exposed to want and famine.