Proverbs 30:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Lest peraduenture I beyng full, shoulde denie thee, and say, who is the Lorde? or beyng oppressed with pouertie fall to stealyng, and forswere the name of my God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פֶּ֥ן אֶשְׂבַּ֨ע ׀ וְכִחַשְׁתִּי֮ וְאָמַ֗רְתִּי מִ֥י יְה֫וָ֥ה וּפֶֽן־אִוָּרֵ֥שׁ וְגָנַ֑בְתִּי וְ֝תָפַ֗שְׂתִּי שֵׁ֣ם אֱלֹהָֽי׃ פ

Transliteration

Pen ʾeśbaʿ weḵiḥaštî weʾāmartî mî YHWH ûpen-ʾiwwārēš wegānabtî wetāpaśtî šēm ʾĕlōhāy

Grammar Details

• *Pen*: conjunction - lest
• *ʾeśbaʿ*: qal imperfect, first person singular - I become satisfied/full
• *weḵiḥaštî*: conjunction + piel perfect, first person singular - and I deny
• *weʾāmartî*: conjunction + qal perfect, first person singular - and I say
• *mî*: interrogative pronoun - who
• *YHWH*: proper name - Yahweh/the LORD
• *ûpen*: conjunction + conjunction - and lest
• *ʾiwwārēš*: niphal imperfect, first person singular - I become poor/impoverished
• *wegānabtî*: conjunction + qal perfect, first person singular - and I steal
• *wetāpaśtî*: conjunction + qal perfect, first person singular - and I seize/grab/profane
• *šēm*: construct state, masculine singular - name of
• *ʾĕlōhāy*: masculine plural noun + first person singular suffix - my God

Word Meanings

• *weḵiḥaštî*: and I deny/disown/act deceptively
• *wetāpaśtî*: and I seize/grab/take/profane/violate

Referenced Verses

• Deut 31:20 : 20 For I wyll bryng them into the lande which I sware vnto their fathers, that floweth with mylke and honye: and they shall eate, and fyll them selues, and waxe fat, and turne vnto strauge gods, and serue them, and blaspheme me, and breake my couenaunt.
• Hos 13:6 : 6 But when they were well fed, and had enough, they waxed proude, & forgat me.
• Deut 32:15 : 15 But he that shoulde haue ben vpright, when he waxed fat, spurned with his heele: Thou art well fed, thou art growen thicke, thou art euen laden with fatnesse: And he forsoke God his maker, and regarded not the God of his saluation.
• Deut 8:10-14 : 10 When thou hast eaten therfore & filled thy selfe, thou shalt blesse the Lorde thy God for the good lande whiche he hath geuen thee. 11 Beware that thou forget not the Lorde thy God, that thou wouldest not kepe his comaundementes, his lawes, and his ordinaunces, whiche I commaunde thee this day: 12 Yea, and when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, and hast buylt goodly houses and dwelt therein: 13 And when thy beastes and thy sheepe are waxen many, and thy siluer and golde is multiplied, and all that thou hast is encreased: 14 Then beware lest thyne heart ryse, and thou forget the Lorde thy God, whiche brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, and from the house of bondage:
• Job 31:24-28 : 24 Haue I put my trust in golde? or haue I sayde to the wedge of golde, thou art my confidence? 25 Haue I reioyced because my power was great, and because my hande gat so much? 26 Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysing of the sunne? or had I the goyng downe of the moone in great reputation? 27 Hath my heart medled priuyly with any disceite? or did I euer kisse myne owne hande? 28 (That were a wickednesse worthy to be punished: for then shoulde I haue denyed the God that is aboue.)
• Ezek 16:49-50 : 49 Behold, the sinnes of thy sister Sodoma were these: Pryde, fulnesse of meate, and aboundaunce of idlenesse, these thinges had she and her daughters: besides that, they strengthed not the hande of the poore and needie. 50 But they were hautie, and committed abhomination before me, therefore I toke them away as I sawe good.
• Jer 2:31 : 31 Oh generation, hearken vnto the worde of the Lorde: Am I become a wildernesse vnto the people of Israel? or a lande that hath no lyght? wherfore saith my people then, We are lordes, we wyll come no more vnto thee?
• Deut 6:10-12 : 10 And when the Lorde thy God hath brought thee into the lande which he sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob, and shall geue to thee great & goodly cities which thou buildedst not, 11 Houses full of all maner of goodes which thou filledst not, & welles digged which thou diggedst not, vineyardes and oliue trees which thou plantedst not, and when thou hast eaten & art full: 12 Then beware lest thou forget ye Lorde which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt from the house of bondage.
• Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharao sayde: who is the Lorde that I shoulde heare his voyce, and let Israel go? I knowe not the Lorde, neyther wyll I let Israel go.
• Exod 20:7 : 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne: for the Lorde will not holde him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne.
• Josh 24:27 : 27 And Iosuah sayde vnto al the people: Behold, this stone shalbe a witnesse vnto vs, for it hath hearde al the wordes of the Lorde whiche he spake with vs, it shalbe therfore a witnesse vnto you, lest ye denie your God.
• Neh 9:25-26 : 25 And they wanne their strong cities, and a fat lande, and toke possession of houses that were full of all maner of goodes, welles digged out, vineyards, oliue gardens, & many fruiteful trees: and they did eate, and were filled, and became fat, and liued in pleasure through thy great goodnesse. 26 Neuerthelesse, they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behinde their backes, & slue their prophetes, which exhorted them earnestly that they might bring them againe vnto thee, and did great blasphemies.
• Matt 26:72 : 72 And agayne he denyed with an oth: I do not knowe the man.
• Matt 26:74 : 74 Then began he to curse, & to sweare, that he knewe not the man. And immediatly the Cocke crewe.
• Acts 12:22-23 : 22 And the people gaue a shout saying It is the voyce of God, & not of a man. 23 And immediatly the Angel of ye Lorde smote hym, because he gaue not God ye honour, & he was eaten of wormes, and gaue vp the ghost.
• 2 Chr 32:15-17 : 15 Wherfore nowe let not Hezekia deceaue you, nor persuade you of this fassion, nor yet beleue him: For as no god among all nations and kingdomes, was able to rid his people out of my hand and out of the hand of my fathers: Howe much lesse shall your gods be able to kepe you out of my hande? 16 And yet mo thinges did his seruauntes speake against the Lorde God, and against his seruaunt Hezekia. 17 And Sennacherib also wrote a letter to rayle on the Lord God of Israel, and spake against him, saying: As the gods of the nations of other landes haue not ben able to deliuer their people out of my hande: euen so shal not the God of Hezekia deliuer his people out of my hande.
• Lev 5:1 : 1 If a soule sinne, and heare the voyce of swearing, and is a witnesse, whether he hath seene or knowen of it, if he do not vtter it, he shall beare his sinne.
• Ezek 16:14-15 : 14 And thy name was spread among the heathen for thy beautie: for it was perfite through thy beautie whiche I put vpon thee, saith the Lorde God. 15 But thou hast put thy confidence in thyne owne beautie, and played the harlot because of thy renowne, and hast powred out thy fornications with euery one that went by, thou wast his.
• Dan 4:17 : 17 This sentence is according to the decree of the watchers, and the request according to the word of the holy ones: because liuing men should knowe that the hyghest hath power ouer the kingdome of men, and geueth it to whom it liketh hym, and setteth vp ouer it the basese among men.
• Dan 4:30 : 30 And the king spake, & sayd: Is not this great Babylon that I haue buylt for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power, and for the honour of my maiestie?
• Ps 125:3 : 3 For the scepter of the vngodly shall not rest vpon the lot of the righteous: lest the righteous put their handes vnto wickednes.
• Prov 6:30-31 : 30 Men do not vtterly despise a thiefe that stealeth to satisfie his soule, when he is hungrie: 31 But if he may be gotten, he restoreth agayne seuen tymes as muche, or els he maketh recompence with all the good of his house.
• Prov 29:24 : 24 Who so is partner with a thiefe, hateth his owne soule: he heareth blasphemie and telleth it not foorth.