Proverbs 30:8

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Summary

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

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Convenient for me

2 Kings 25:30

Jeremiah 37:21

Jeremiah 52:34

General references

Matthew 6:11

1 Timothy 6:8

Bible References

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He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

Then he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So they took it to him.

Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

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Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on,

And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food.

Give us this day bread for our needs.

Give us every day bread for our needs.

But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:

Convenient for me

And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.

Then by the order of Zedekiah the king, Jeremiah was put into the place of the armed watchmen, and they gave him every day a cake of bread from the street of the bread-makers, till all the bread in the town was used up. So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.

And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.

General references

Give us this day bread for our needs.

But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.