Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 37:25

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

This assertion seems to be Contradicted by many Experiences: nor can it be denied, that both good Men and their Children, have sometimes been reduced to great want: Quest. How then is this true? Ans. 1. Some render the last Clause thus, nor (did I ever see) his seed (to wit, forsaken, as was now said) though begging Bread. So the Sence is, I have s[illegible: 1+ letters]en him brought to beggery, yet even then God did not forsake him. But this Sence agrees not with the Context, nor Scope, which is to shew the Plenty and Prosperity, wherewith God blesseth him. 2. This is to be understood of the seed of the Righteous, treading in their Fathers steps, from which if they degenerate, they lose all their Priviledges, as many places of Scripture witness. 3. Some few Exceptions, do not destroy the Truth of a general Proposition. 4. These temporal Promises were more express, and particular to the Iews in the times of the Old Testament, than to Christians in the New, and therefore were more literally fulfilled. 5. He speaks not of any kind of wanting or desiring, or receiving Relief from others, for so David himself did, 1 Sam. 21. 3. and 25. 8. but of the Customary Practise and Trade of begging, which was threatned as a Curse to the disobedient, Deut. 28. Psal. 109. 10. 6. Not begging, to wit, in vain, Or, so as to be forsaken, as was now expressed, and may very well be here understood, Or, so as not to be sustained or relieved by others. 7. David speaks onely of his own Experience, which if since that time it be Contradicted by other mens Experiences, it is no more than what happens in all the Concernments of humane Life.