Parallel Verses
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;
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
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 required of thee; do not deny me them before I die:
8
Give me neither poverty nor riches;
Feed me with the
Cross References
Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our daily bread.
Luke 11:3
Give us day by day our daily bread.
Genesis 28:20
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat and clothing to put on
Genesis 48:15-16
And he blessed Joseph and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long unto this day,
Exodus 16:15
And when the sons of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna (What is it?): for they did not know what it was. Then Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.
Exodus 16:18
And when they did measure it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered each one according to his eating.
Exodus 16:21-22
And they gathered it early in the morning, each one according to his eating; and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
Exodus 16:29
See that the LORD has given you the sabbath; therefore, he gives you the bread of two days on the sixth day; abide ye every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Exodus 16:35
Thus the sons of Israel ate manna forty years until they came to a land inhabited; they ate manna until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
2 Kings 25:30
And the king caused him to be given his food continually, each thing in its time, all the days of his life.
Job 23:12
Neither have I separated myself from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Psalm 62:9-10
Surely the sons of Adam are vanity, and the sons of nobles are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalm 119:29
Remove from me the way of lying, and from thy law grant me mercy.
Psalm 119:37
Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and cause me to live in thy way.
Proverbs 21:6
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.
Proverbs 22:8
He that sows iniquity shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon riches which are not? For they shall certainly make themselves wings; they shall fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Isaiah 5:18
Woe unto those that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope,
Isaiah 59:4
No one calls for righteousness, nor do any judge by the truth; they trust in vanity, and speak vanities; they conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity.
Jeremiah 37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the guard and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Jeremiah 52:34
And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every thing in its day for all the days of his life, until the day of his death.
Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
John 2:8
And he said unto them, Draw out now and bear unto the butler. And they bore it.
Acts 14:15
and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things that are therein,
1 Timothy 6:6-8
But piety with contentment is great gain.