Proverbs 30:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שָׁ֤וְא ׀ וּֽדְבַר־כָּזָ֡ב הַרְחֵ֬ק מִמֶּ֗נִּי רֵ֣אשׁ וָ֭עֹשֶׁר אַל־תִּֽתֶּן־לִ֑י הַ֝טְרִיפֵ֗נִי לֶ֣חֶם חֻקִּֽי׃

Transliteration

Šāwʾ ûdebar-kāzāb harḥēq mimmennî rēʾš wāʿōšer ʾal-titten-lî haṭrîpēnî leḥem ḥuqqî

Grammar Details

• *Šāwʾ*: masculine singular noun - falsehood/vanity/emptiness
• *ûdebar*: conjunction + construct state, masculine singular - and word of
• *kāzāb*: masculine singular noun - lie/falsehood
• *harḥēq*: hiphil imperative, masculine singular - remove far/keep far
• *mimmennî*: preposition + first person singular suffix - from me
• *rēʾš*: masculine singular noun - poverty/need
• *wāʿōšer*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and riches/wealth
• *ʾal*: negative particle for prohibitions - do not
• *titten*: qal imperfect, second masculine singular jussive - give
• *lî*: preposition + first person singular suffix - to me
• *haṭrîpēnî*: hiphil imperative, masculine singular + first person singular suffix - cause me to eat/feed me
• *leḥem*: masculine singular noun - bread/food
• *ḥuqqî*: masculine singular noun + first person singular suffix - my portion/my allotment

Word Meanings

• *Šāwʾ*: falsehood/vanity/emptiness/worthlessness
• *rēʾš*: poverty/need/destitution
• *ḥuqqî*: my portion/my allotment/my prescribed portion/my due

Referenced Verses

• 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{H8800)} in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 10 Trust{H8799)} not in oppression, and become not vain{H8799)} in robbery: if riches increase{H8799)}, set{H8799)} 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.