He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
Deuteronomy 8:1 You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 8:2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
Deuteronomy 8:4 Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy 8:5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
The verse centers on "humbled", "allowed", "hungry", "manna", "didn", "neither", "fathers", and "might". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "humbled" and "allowed", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 2's "You shall remember all the way which..." into verse 4's "Your clothing didn t grow old on...", so "humbled" and "allowed" belong inside that flow. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "humbled" and "allowed" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.