KJV ORIGINAL
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Keep vanity and lies far away from me. Don't give me poverty or riches—just provide me with the food I need each day.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
The writer is asking God to protect him from both dishonesty and extremes of wealth or poverty, wanting only what he truly needs to live.
📚 Historical Context
This comes from the words of Agur, a wisdom teacher whose sayings are recorded in Proverbs 30. In ancient Israel, both extreme poverty and great wealth were seen as potential spiritual dangers—poverty might lead to desperation and crime, while riches could lead to pride and forgetting God. The request for 'daily bread' reflects a desire for contentment and dependence on God's provision.
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