I lost my job and the bills are still coming. I am frightened I will not be able to provide for myself. What do I do with the worry?

“I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”

David writes as an old man looking back over a long and often unstable life, including years on the run with no income and no security. This is testimony rather than a guarantee about bank balances. He is not claiming the righteous never go hungry; he is saying that across a lifetime he watched God provide in ways he could not have predicted.

“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

Paul writes this to a poor congregation that had just sent him money while he sat in prison. He is not promising them comfort; he is promising supply, from a source outside their circumstances, and he says it as a man who has genuinely been hungry. The promise is made from inside scarcity, not from a position of safety.