Proverbs 10:21

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about the difference between the righteous and the fool; 

Proverbs 10:21 (NASBStr)

The lips of the righteous feed many,

But fools die for lack of understanding.

Proverbs 10:21 (AMP)

The lips of the [uncompromisingly] righteous feed and guide many, but fools die for want of understanding and heart.

Proverbs 10:21 (ESV)

The lips of the righteous feed many,

but fools die for lack of sense.

It is one thing to have no bread to eat.  It is another thing to stand outside a bread store that is giving away free bread and simply have no heart's desire to go in and therefore starve on the street.   This is the picture Solomon is painting for us in the above proverb.   The righteous (those declared so by the sovereign act of God based upon Christ's work and received by faith) have only to open their mouths and good things proceed out.   As Matthew Henry states, "they are of weight and of worth."   Since the righteous have been saved by the Word of God they are filled with the Word of God.  So, out of their mouth is the Bread of Life.  In Proverbs chapter eight and nine we read that wisdom is on the street, on every corner, crying out.  Could this be believers who are full of God's Word, ready to proclaim wisdom and offer the bread of life to all who pass by?   Yet, the fool will die because they lack a "heart" (the word "understanding" above) for it and will not listen.   The fool dies even though wisdom cries out to all who know and fear The Lord.   God cries out via his creation and via His children.  Yet, the fool, who's heart has rejected the Lord, dies for lack of his hearts desire to submit by faith in the Wisdom of God.   Bread can be available but some will never eat.