Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsRemove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,
Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.