Proverbs 30:7
Two things I have asked from You, || Do not withhold from me before I die.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
In Context
6Do not add to His words, lest He reason with you, || And you have been found false.
Cross References
2 Kings 2:9And it comes to pass, at their passing over, that Elijah has said to Elisha, “Ask what I do for you before I am taken from you.” And Elisha says, “Indeed, please let there be a double portion of your spirit to me”;
Psalms 27:4One [thing] I asked of YHWH—it I seek: My dwelling in the house of YHWH, || All the days of my life, || To look on the pleasantness of YHWH, || And to inquire in His temple.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:2-7
The Words of Agur. 1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. 4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst… Read the whole commentary →