Proverbs 30:8
Vanity and lying words do thou remove far from me: neither poverty nor riches give thou unto me; let me eat the bread appointed unto me:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
7Two things do I request of thee: deny them not to me before I die.
Cross References
Genesis 28:20And Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me on this way which I am going, and will 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, It is manna, for they knew not what it was; and Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Exodus 16:21And so they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating; and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
Exodus 16:35And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; the manna they did eat, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Job 23:12From the commandment of his lips have I also not moved away: as a fixed statute for me have I treasured up the sayings of his mouth.
Psalms 119:29The way of falsehood do thou remove from me, and grant me graciously thy law.
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 →