KJV King James Version
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
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Proverbs 30:8
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
WEB World English Bible
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
ASV American Standard Version
Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,
Surrounding context — Proverbs 30
5 Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
7 Two [things] have I required of thee; deny me [them] not before I die:
8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
9 Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].
10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
11 [There is] a generation [that] curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
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שָׁ֤וְא׀H7723 · shavvanity: falseוּֽדְבַר־H1697 · da.varwordכָּזָ֡בH3577 · ka.zavlieהַרְחֵ֬קH7368 · ra.chaqto removeמִמֶּ֗נִּיH4480 · minfromרֵ֣אשׁH7389 · reshpovertyוָ֭עֹשֶׁרH6239 · o.sherrichesאַל־H408 · alnotתִּֽתֶּן־H5414 · na.tanto give: giveלִ֑יH9030 · nimeהַ֝טְרִיפֵ֗נִיH2963 · ta.raphto tearלֶ֣חֶםH3899 · le.chemfoodחֻקִּֽי׃H2706 · choqstatute: decree
Cross-references
1 Timothy 6:6-8But godliness with contentment is great gain.Psalm 62:9-10Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.Psalm 119:37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.Matthew 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.Luke 11:3Give us day by day our daily bread.Psalm 119:29Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.Job 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].Proverbs 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.Matthew 6:11Give us this day our daily bread.Proverbs 22:8He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.2 Kings 25:30And his allowance [was] a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.Exodus 16:35And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.Exodus 16:15And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] manna: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.Acts 14:15And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:Isaiah 5:18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:Jeremiah 37:21Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.Genesis 48:15-16And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
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