'Lacking' in the Bible
Perhaps the fifty righteous are lacking five--will you destroy the whole city on account of the five?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] if I find forty-five there."
[to] a land where you may eat food in it {without scarcity}; you will not find anything lacking in it, a land where its stones [are] iron and from its mountains you can mine copper.
And the five men went and came to Laish, and they observed the people who [were] living according to the customs of [the] Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, and lacking nothing in the land, and possessing restraint. And they [were] far from [the] Sidonians and had no word with anyone.
And they said, "Why, Yahweh, God of Israel, has it happened today in Israel that one tribe is lacking from Israel?"
May [the blood] come down on the head of Joab and all the house of his father. {May the house of Joab never lack} [one with] a bodily discharge or [one with] leprosy or [one who] grasps the distaff or [one who] falls by the sword or [one who is] lacking food."
And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking {sense},
In many words, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.
It is better to be lowly and a servant {to someone} than self-glorifying and lacking food.
I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking {sense};
[For] he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking, but [for] he who turns his eyes, [there are] many curses.
What is twisted cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.