Kejadian 1:30

1:30 And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground – everything that has the breath of life in it – I give ¹  every green plant for food.” It was so.

Ayub 28:5

28:5 The earth, from which food comes,

is overturned below as though by fire; ² 

Mazmur 37:25

37:25 I was once young, now I am old.

I have never seen a godly man abandoned,

or his children ³  forced to search for food. ⁴ 

Matius 6:26

6:26 Look at the birds in the sky: ⁵  They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds ⁶  them. Aren’t you more valuable ⁷  than they are?

[1:30]  ¹ tn The phrase “I give” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation for clarification.

[28:5]  ² sn The verse has been properly understood, on the whole, as comparing the earth above and all its produce with the upheaval down below.

[37:25]  ³ tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

[37:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “or his offspring searching for food.” The expression “search for food” also appears in Lam 1:11, where Jerusalem’s refugees are forced to search for food and to trade their valuable possessions for something to eat.

[6:26]  ⁵ tn Grk “the birds of the sky” or “the birds of the heaven”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated either “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context. The idiomatic expression “birds of the sky” refers to wild birds as opposed to domesticated fowl (cf. BDAG 809 s.v. πετεινόν).

[6:26]  ⁶ tn Or “God gives them food to eat.” L&N 23.6 has both “to provide food for” and “to give food to someone to eat.”

[6:26]  ⁷ tn Grk “of more value.”