Proverbs 30:8

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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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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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The making of treasures by a lying tongue, Is a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

Only -- vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.

The way of falsehood turn aside from me And with Thy law favour me.

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

Woe to those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as with thick ropes of the cart -- sin.

There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

and he saith to them, 'Draw out, now, and bear to the director of the apartment;' and they bare.

and saying, 'Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;

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And Jacob voweth a vow, saying, 'Seeing God is with me, and hath kept me in this way which I am going, and hath given to me bread to eat, and a garment to put on --

And he blesseth Joseph, and saith, 'God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked habitually: God who is feeding me from my being unto this day:

And the sons of Israel see, and say one unto another, 'What is it?' for they have not known what it is; and Moses saith unto them, 'It is the bread which Jehovah hath given to you for food.

'Our appointed bread give us to-day.

our appointed bread be giving us daily;

but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment;

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and his allowance -- a continual allowance -- hath been given to him from the king, the matter of a day in its day, all days of his life.

And the king Zedekiah commandeth, and they commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, also to give to him a cake of bread daily from the bakers' street, till the consumption of all the bread of the city, and Jeremiah dwelleth in the court of the prison.

And his allowance -- a continual allowance -- hath been given to him by the king of Babylon, the matter of a day in its day, till the day of his death -- all days of his life.

General references

'Our appointed bread give us to-day.

but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves;