Proverbs 3:26 (WEB)

Passage

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

Nearby Context

Proverbs 3:24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

Proverbs 3:25 Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

Proverbs 3:26 for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

Proverbs 3:27 Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Proverbs 3:28 Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "yahweh", "confidence", "keep", "foot", and "taken". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "yahweh" and "confidence", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 25's "Don t be afraid of sudden fear..." into verse 27's "Don t withhold good from those to...", so "yahweh" and "confidence" belong inside that flow. In Proverbs context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "yahweh" and "confidence" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.