Proverbs 30:9 - The Scriptures 1998

⁹ Lest I become satisfied and deny You, And say, “Who is יהוה ?” And lest I be poor, and steal, And seize the Name of my Elohim.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Lest I be full and deny You and say, Who is the Lord? Or lest I be poor and steal, and so profane the name of my God. [Deut. 8:12, 14, 17; Neh. 9:25, 26; Job 31:24; Hos. 13:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of my God.

Common English Bible

⁹ Or I’ll be full and deny you, and say, “Who is the LORD?” Or I’ll be poor and steal, and dishonor my God’s name.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ lest perhaps, being filled, I might be enticed into denial, and say: 'Who is the Lord?' Or, being compelled by destitution, I might steal, and then perjure myself in the name of my God.

Proverbs 30:9 Cross References

Psalm 125:3

For the sceptre of wrongness shall not rest On the land allotted to the righteous, Lest the righteous stretch forth their hands to unrighteousness.

Exodus 20:7

“You do not bring the Name of יהוה  your Elohim to naught, for יהוה  does not leave the one unpunished who brings His Name to naught.

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh said, “Who is יהוה, that I should obey His voice to let Yisra’ĕ

Proverbs 29:24

He who shares with a thief hates his own life; He hears an oath, but does not report.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and being untrue to יהוה, and turning away from our Elohim, speaking oppression and apostasy, conceiving and pondering words of falsehood from the heart.

Jeremiah 2:31

“O generation, see the word of יהוה! Have I been a wilderness to Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 5:12

They have been untrue to יהוה, and said, “It is not He. No evil comes upon us, nor do we see sword or scarcity of food.”

Ezekiel 23:35

“Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore you shall bear your wickedness and your whorings.’ ”

Daniel 4:17

‘This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the command by the word of the set-apart ones, so that the living know that the Most High is ruler in the reign of men, and gives it to whomever He wishes, and sets over it the lowest of men.’

Daniel 4:30

The sovereign spoke and said, “Is not this great Baḇ

Hosea 13:6

“When they were fed they were satisfied. They were satisfied and their heart was exalted, therefore they forgot Me.

Leviticus 5:1

‘And when a being sins in that he has heard the voice of swearing, and is a witness, or has seen, or has known, but does not reveal it, he shall bear his crookedness.

Matthew 26:72

But again he denied with an oath, “I do not know the Man!”

Matthew 26:74

Then he began to curse and to swear, saying, “I do not know the Man!” And immediately a cock crowed.

Deuteronomy 31:20

“And I shall bring them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they shall eat and be satisfied and be fat, then they shall turn to other mighty ones, and they shall serve them, and scorn Me and break My covenant.

Deuteronomy 32:15

“But Yeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are covered with fat; So he forsook Eloah who made him, And scorned the Rock of his deliverance.

Joshua 24:27

And Yehoshua said to all the people, “See, this stone is a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of יהוה  which He spoke to us. And it shall be a witness against you, lest you lie against your Elohim.”