16 Bible Verses about Shortages

There is he who scatters, and increases yet more, and there he is who withholds more than is proper, but only to want.

Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

A righteous man eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked shall want.

lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and use the name of my God profanely.

TEKEL, thou are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

LORD will be terrible to them, for he will famish all the gods of the earth. And men shall worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the nations.

And when he spent all, a mighty famine developed in that country, and he began to be in want.

And he said to them, When I sent you without bag and pouch and shoes, did ye lack anything? And they said, Nothing.

And being present with you, and when needy, I was a burden to no man. For the brothers who came from Macedonia, they supplied my need. And in everything I kept, and I will keep myself non-burdensome to you.

Not that I speak regarding need, for I have learned in what things I am to be content.

But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beings saying, A measure of wheat for a denarius, and three measures of barley for a denarius. And thou may not harm the olive oil and the wine.

The leach has two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, [yea], four that do not say, Enough:

Sheol, and the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire that does not say, Enough.