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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Making a fortune through a lying tongue
is a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death.

The one who sows injustice will reap disaster,
and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.

Men are only a vapor;
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.

Keep me from the way of deceit
and graciously give me Your instruction.

“Absolute futility,” says the Teacher.
“Absolute futility. Everything is futile.”

Woe to those who drag wickedness
with cords of deceit
and pull sin along with cart ropes,

No one makes claims justly;
no one pleads honestly.
They trust in empty and worthless words;
they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

Then He said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the chief servant.”

And they did.

“Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.

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Then Jacob made a vow: “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, if He provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear,

Then he blessed Joseph and said:

The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” because they didn’t know what it was.

Moses told them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.

Give us today our daily bread.

Give us each day our daily bread.

But godliness with contentment is a great gain.

Convenient for me

As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king, a portion for each day, for the rest of his life.

So King Zedekiah gave orders, and Jeremiah was placed in the guard’s courtyard. He was given a loaf of bread each day from the baker’s street until all the bread was gone from the city. So Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard.

As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, for the rest of his life.

General references

Give us today our daily bread.

But if we have food and clothing,
we will be content with these.