Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:
New American Standard Bible
Give me neither poverty nor riches;
Feed me with the
King James Version
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Holman Bible
Give me neither poverty nor wealth;
feed me with the food I need.
International Standard Version
Keep deception and lies far away from me, and give me neither poverty nor wealth. Feed me with food that I need for today,
A Conservative Version
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,
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:
Amplified
Keep deception and lies far from me;
Give me neither poverty nor riches;
Feed me with the food that is my portion,
Bible in Basic English
Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:
Darby Translation
Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:
King James 2000
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food needful for me:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Keep falsehood and a {lying word} far from me; do not give me poverty or wealth; provide me [with] food [only for] my need.
Modern King James verseion
remove far from me vanity and a lying word; give me neither poverty or riches; tear for me my portion of bread,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Remove from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches, only grant me a necessary living.
NET Bible
Remove falsehood and lies far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion of bread,
New Heart 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;
The Emphasized Bible
Vanity and falsehood, remove far from me, Neither poverty nor riches, give me, Feed me with the food appointed me:
Webster
Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
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;
Youngs 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,
Themes
Contentment » Exemplified » Agur
Lying » Saints » Pray to be preserved from
Poverty » General references to
Prayer » Seven earnest suppliants » For food
Prayer » For temporal blessings
Riches » Often lead to » Denying God
Riches » Be not over-anxious for
Topics
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Nathan
Taraph
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 30:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prayer
7 Two things I asked from thee, thou wilt not withhold from me before I shall die: 8 Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance: 9 Lest I shall be filled and I spake lies, and said, Who is Jehovah? and lest I shall be dispossessed and I stole, and I laid hold upon the name of God.
Cross References
Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our bread sufficient for sustenance.
Luke 11:3
Give us our bread sufficient for sustenance by the day.
Genesis 28:20
And Jacob will vow a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will preserve me in this way which I went, and gave to me bread to eat, and covering to put on,
Genesis 48:15-16
And he will bless Joseph, and will say, God, before whom my fathers went, Abraham and Isaak, the God having fed me, from ever since I was till this day.
Exodus 16:15
And the sons of Israel will see, and they will say, each to his brother, What this? for they knew not what it was And Moses will say to them, This the bread which Jehovah gave to you to eat
Exodus 16:18
And they will measure by the handful, and the abundance did not exceed, and the little was not diminished: they gathered a man according to the mouth of his eating.
Exodus 16:21-22
And they will gather it in the morning by morning, a man according to the mouth of his eating: and the sun was hot and it melted.
Exodus 16:29
See, for Jehovah gave to you the Sabbath; for this be gave to you in the sixth day, bread of two days: sit ye each in his station; a man shall not go forth from his place in the seventh day.
Exodus 16:35
And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years till they came to a land inhabited: they ate the portion till they came to the extremity of the land of Canaan.
2 Kings 25:30
And his ration a ration continually, given to him from the king, the word of a day in its day all the days of his life.
Job 23:12
From the command of his lips and I will not waver; from his law I hid the words of his mouth.
Psalm 62:9-10
Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.
Psalm 119:29
The way of falsehood remove thou from me, and with thy laws compassionate me.
Psalm 119:37
Cause mine eyes to pass from seeing vanity; make me live in thy way.
Proverbs 21:6
The making treasures by the tongue of falsehood is vanity scattered from those seeking death.
Proverbs 22:8
He sowing iniquity shall reap vanity, and the rod of his wrath shall be finished.
Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.
Isaiah 5:18
Wo to those drawing iniquity with cords of evil, and sin as the cords of a wagon:
Isaiah 59:4
None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.
Jeremiah 37:21
And king Zedekiah will command, and they will commit Jeremiah to the enclosure of the prison, and giving to him a round of bread for the day from the street of the baker's, till all the bread was consumed out of the city. And Jeremiah dwelt in the enclosure of the prison.
Jeremiah 52:34
And his ration a ration continually, given to him from the king of Babel, the word of a day in its days, even to the day of his death, all the days of his life.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you.
John 2:8
And he says to them, Draw now, and carry to the superintendent of the feast. And they carried.
Acts 14:15
And saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of similar passions with you, announcing good news to turn you back from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all in them:
1 Timothy 6:6-8
But devotion with contentment is great gain.