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Psalm 17:14

from men by your hand, LORD, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13Arise, LORD, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
14from men by your hand, LORD, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
15As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
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The plea for God's hand against dangerous men shares a verse with full bellies and inherited wealth, setting human threat within God's rule.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted …The psalm describes a portion confined to this life; Abraham speaks of earthly good things followed by anguish.
Matthew 6:32For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.The psalm names God as the giver of food; Jesus says the Father knows his people's needs.
Job 22:18Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.Both passages credit God with filling human lives with material goods, even amid speech about the wicked.
John 17:14I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.Both passages describe opposition associated with the world: David seeks rescue from its men, while Jesus describes its hatred.
John 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.Both distinguish those belonging to the world from those facing its hostility.
Luke 16:8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of …Both use language of belonging to this world, though Luke's saying concerns a manager's shrewdness.
John 8:23He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.Both identify people with this world; Jesus makes an explicit contrast between their origin and his own.
Psalm 49:17–19for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.A portion confined to this life shares the limit Psalm 49 names: wealth cannot accompany its owner into death.
Luke 12:19–21I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’Both describe accumulated goods, with the psalm naming provision for children and Luke naming ease for the owner.
Ecclesiastes 6:2a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but …Both name God as the source of wealth; Ecclesiastes distinguishes receiving riches from having the power to enjoy them.
Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.Both speak about threatening people, though Job makes the robbers' prosperity explicit while the psalm asks for rescue.
1 John 4:4–5You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.Both look to God's power amid opposition connected with the world: his rescuing hand in the psalm, his greater power in John.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. fear for the future. envy and comparison.

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Something small to carry out of this verse

Ask for God's protecting hand at bedtime tonight

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Encouragement

Threat and provision both belong in prayer. David asks God to intervene against those who endanger him, and names God as the source of what fills the table.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).