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The young lions; either,
1. Properly: see Job_4:11. Or,
2. Metaphorically so called, the great potentates of the earth, who are oft so called, as Jer_2:15 Eze_38:13 Nah_2:13.
Shall not want any good thing, which is necessary and truly good for them, all circumstances considered; of which God alone is a competent judge. And therefore although God doth usually take a special care to supply the wants of good men, and hath oft done it by extraordinary ways, when ordinary have failed, yet sometimes he knows, and it is certainly true, that wants and crosses are more needful and useful to them than bread, and in such cases it is a greater mercy of God to deny them supplies than to grant them.