Proverbs 30:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

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  • Matt 6:11 : 11 ‹Give us this day our daily bread.›
  • Luke 11:3 : 3 ‹Give us day by day our daily bread.›
  • 1 Tim 6:6-8 : 6 ¶ But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
  • Ps 62:9-9 : 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. 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].
  • Ps 119:29 : 29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 ¶ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.
  • Prov 21:6 : 6 ¶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
  • Prov 22:8 : 8 ¶ He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
  • Prov 23:5 : 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.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 ¶ Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
  • Gen 28:20 : 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 48:15-16 : 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, 16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
  • Exod 16:15 : 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 : 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 16:21-22 : 21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. 22 ¶ And it came to pass, [that] on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one [man]: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
  • Exod 16:29 : 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 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 25:30 : 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.
  • Job 23:12 : 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 : 8 And he saith unto them, ‹Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast.› And they bare [it].
  • Acts 14:15 : 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 the sea, and all things that are therein:
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 ‹But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.›
  • Jer 37:21 : 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 the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
  • Jer 52:34 : 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.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

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  • 9 Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].

  • 7 ¶ Two [things] have I required of thee; deny me [them] not before I die:

  • 4 Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

  • Prov 23:2-4
    3 verses
    73%

    2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite.

    3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful meat.

    4 ¶ Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

  • 29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

  • Ps 119:36-37
    2 verses
    72%

    36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

    37 ¶ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.

  • 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

  • 22 ¶ Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

  • 3 ‹Give us day by day our daily bread.›

  • 11 ‹Give us this day our daily bread.›

  • 6 ¶ Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

  • Job 13:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20 Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

    21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

  • 1 ¶ A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

  • 16 ¶ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

  • 17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of [mine] hand hath gotten me this wealth.

  • 11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

  • 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].

  • 21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

  • 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

  • 16 As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was [right] before thee.

  • 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in their hearts.

  • 17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

  • 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof.

  • 23 That I will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

  • 5 [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

  • 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

  • 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].

  • 2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.

  • 1 ¶ A Psalm of David. The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.

  • 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

  • 15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

  • 12 Lest [when] thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein];

  • 30 [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

  • 10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity.

  • 24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

  • 18 Riches and honour [are] with me; [yea], durable riches and righteousness.

  • 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

  • 11 ¶ Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

  • 8 ¶ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

  • 16 ¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.

  • Job 32:21-22
    2 verses
    68%

    21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

    22 For I know not to give flattering titles; [in so doing] my maker would soon take me away.

  • 25 Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire beside thee.

  • 31 ‹Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?›

  • 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

  • 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.