Proverbs 30:9
lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
10Deliver not a servant into the hands of his master, lest he curse you, and you be utterly destroyed.
Cross References
Exodus 20:7You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord your God will not acquit him that takes his name in vain.
Deuteronomy 6:10And it shall come to pass when the Lord your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities which you did not build,
Deuteronomy 8:10And you shall eat and be filled, and shall bless the Lord your God on the good land, which he has given you.
Deuteronomy 32:15So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Saviour.
2 Chronicles 32:15Now then, let not Ezekias deceive you, and let him not make you thus confident, and believe him not: for no god of any kingdom or nation is at all able to deliver his people out of my hand, or the hand of my fathers: therefore your God shall not deliver you out of my hand.
Job 31:24If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone;
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 →