Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Vanity and falsehood, remove far from me, Neither poverty nor riches, give me, Feed me with the food appointed me:
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:
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:
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;
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
Interlinear
Nathan
Taraph
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 30:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prayer
7 Two things, have I asked of thee, withhold them not from me, ere yet I die: 8 Vanity and falsehood, remove far from me, Neither poverty nor riches, give me, Feed me with the food appointed me: 9 Lest I be full, and deny, and say - Who is Yahweh? or lest I be impoverished and steal, and do violence to the Name of my God.
Cross References
Matthew 6:11
Our needful bread, give us, this day;
Luke 11:3
Our needful bread, be giving us, day by day;
Genesis 28:20
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, - If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way whereon, I, am going, and give me bread to eat and raiment to put on;
Genesis 48:15-16
Thus blessed he Joseph, and said, - God himself - before whom walked my fathers. Abraham and Isaac, God himself - who hath been my shepherd, since I came into being until this day; -
Exodus 16:15
And when the sons of Israel saw it they said one to another - What is that? For they knew not what "that" was. Then said Moses unto them, "That" is the bread which Yahweh hath given you to eat.
Exodus 16:18
and when they measured it with the omer, he who had gathered more had nothing over, and he who had gathered less had no lack: each man what he needed for eating, did they gather.
Exodus 16:21-22
Thus then they gathered it morning by morning, each man what he needed for eating, and as soon as the sun waxed hot, so soon it melted.
Exodus 16:29
See because Yahweh hath given you the sabbath, for this cause, is, he, giving you on the sixth day, food for two days, - abide ye every man in his place, let no man go forth from his dwelling, on the seventh day,
Exodus 16:35
And, the sons of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they entered into the land wherein they were to dwell, - the manna, they did eat until they entered into the bounds of the land of Canaan.
2 Kings 25:30
And, as his allowance, a continual portion, was given him, from the king, the provision of a day upon its own day, - all the days of his life.
Job 23:12
The command of his lips, and would not go back, and, in my bosom, have I treasured the words of his lips.
Psalm 62:9-10
Surely, vanity, are men of low degree, Deception, men of high degree, - In the balances, they go up, They, are made of vanity, altogether.
Psalm 119:29
The way of falsehood, take thou from me, and, with thy law, O favour me.
Psalm 119:37
Turn away mine eyes, from beholding vanity, In thy way, give me life.
Proverbs 21:6
The gaining of treasures with a tongue of falsehood, is a vapour driven away, they who seek them seek death,
Proverbs 22:8
He that soweth perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.
Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities! saith the Proclaimer, vanity of vanities! all, is vanity.
Isaiah 5:18
Alas! for them Who draw on themselves punishment with cords of falsehood, - And as with waggon-bands, penalty:
Isaiah 59:4
None, sueth in righteousness, and None, pleadeth in faithfulness, - Men are trusting in confusion, And speaking vanity, Conceiving wickedness And bringing forth iniquity:
Jeremiah 37:21
Then King Zedekiah gave command and they committed Jeremiah into the guard-court, and said that there should be given him a cake of bread daily, out of the bakers street, until all the bread out of the city should be spent, So Jeremiah remained in the guard-court.
Jeremiah 52:34
And his allowance, was a continual allowance given him from the king of Babylon the portion of the day upon its own day, until the day of his death, - all the days of his life.
Matthew 6:33
But be seeking first, the kingdom and its righteousness, - and, all these things, shall be added unto you.
John 2:8
And he saith unto them - Draw out now, and be bearing unto the master of the feast. And they bare.
Acts 14:15
and saying - Men! Why, these things, are ye doing? We also, of like nature with you, are men, bringing you the good news, that from these vain things, ye should be turning unto a living God: - Who made heaven and the earth and the sea and all things therein;
1 Timothy 6:6-8
Now it is a great means of gain - godliness, with a sufficiency of ones own;