Proverbs 30:8
Remove far from me vanity, and lying words. Give me neither beggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7Two things I have asked of thee, deny them not to me before I die.
Cross References
Genesis 28:20And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
Exodus 16:15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread, which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Exodus 16:21Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.
Exodus 16:35And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.
Job 23:12I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:8-10
The Prayer of Agur. 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. After Agur's confession and creed, here follows his litany, where we may observe, I. The preface to his prayer: Two things have I required (that is, requested ) of thee, O God! Before we go to… Read the whole commentary →