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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:

KJV

vanitatem et verba mendacia longe fac a me ; mendicitatem et divitias ne dederis mihi : tribue tantum victui meo necessaria,

Vulgate

Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:

ASV

שָׁ֤וְא וּֽ/דְבַר כָּזָ֡ב הַרְחֵ֬ק מִמֶּ֗/נִּי רֵ֣אשׁ וָ֭/עֹשֶׁר אַל תִּֽתֶּן לִ֑/י הַ֝טְרִיפֵ֗/נִי לֶ֣חֶם חֻקִּֽ/י

Hebrew

Remove far from me vanity, and lying words. Give me neither beggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
וֹ
v
noun · 37×
טָרֹ֥ף
trp
verb · 25×
ךָ
k
noun · 126×
ךָ
k
noun · 7×
כָזָֽב
kzb
noun · 28×
לֶ֣חֶם
lchm
noun · 297×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
שָׁ֑וְא
shv'
noun · 52×
תִּרְחַ֥ק
trchq
verb · 56×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. In what has gone before he had shown that the sacrifices were unavailing for perfect purification, and were a type, and greatly defective. Since then there was this objection to his argument, If they are types, how is it that, after the truth has come, they have not ceased, nor given place, but are still performed? He here accordingly labors at this very point, showing that …
Give us this day our daily bread. Here we consider the poor breadbasket, the necessities of our body and of the temporal life. It is a brief, simple word, but it has a very wide scope. When you mention and pray for daily bread, you pray for everything that is necessary in order to have and enjoy daily bread and, on the other hand, against everything which interferes with it.
Is prayer an act of the appetitive or of the cognitive power? Is it fitting to pray to God? Is prayer an act of religion? Should we pray to God alone? Should we ask for something definite when we pray? Should we ask for temporal things when we pray? Should we pray for others? Should we pray for our enemies? The seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer Is prayer proper to the ration…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 4:10 — And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may
  • 1Tim 6:6 — But godliness with contentment is great gain.
  • 1Tim 6:8 — And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
  • 2Kgs 25:30 — And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
  • 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, which made heaven, and earth, and
  • Deut 6:11 — And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
  • Deut 17:17 — Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
  • Eccl 1:2 — Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
  • Exod 16:15 — And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
  • Exod 16:18 — And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
  • Exod 16:21 — And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
  • Exod 16:29 — See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
  • Exod 16:35 — And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
  • Gen 27:24 — And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
  • Gen 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 raiment to put on,
  • Gen 48:15 — And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
  • Isa 5:18 — Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
  • Isa 59:4 — None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
  • Jer 37:21 — Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in t
  • Jer 52:34 — And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
  • Job 23:12 — Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
  • John 2:8 — And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
  • Luke 11:3 — Give us day by day our daily bread.
  • Luke 11:3 — Give us day by day our daily bread.
  • Luke 22:40 — And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
  • Matt 6:11 — Give us this day our daily bread.
  • Matt 6:11 — Give us this day our daily bread.
  • Matt 6:13 — And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
  • Matt 6:33 — But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
  • Matt 19:23 — Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
  • Prov 13:5 — A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
  • Prov 21:6 — The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
  • Prov 22:8 — He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
  • Prov 23:5 — Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
  • Prov 27:27 — And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
  • Ps 62:9 — Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
  • Ps 119:29 — Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
  • Ps 119:29 — Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
  • Ps 119:37 — Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.