Then Jacob made a vow: ‘If God will be with me and watch over me during this journey I’m making, if he provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear,
Proverbs 30:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor wealth; feed me with the food I need. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Remove far from me vanity and lies: Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with food convenient for me: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Remove far from me falsehood and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, American Standard Version (1901) Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me: Common English Bible Fraud and lies— keep far from me! Don’t give me either poverty or wealth; give me just the food I need. Catholic Public Domain Version Remove, far from me, vanity and lying words. Give me neither begging, nor wealth. Apportion to me only the necessities of my life, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Remove far from me vanity, and lying words. Give me neither beggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life: |
Then Jacob made a vow: ‘If God will be with me and watch over me during this journey I’m making, if he provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear,
As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king, a portion for each day, for the rest of his life.
I have not departed from the commands from his lips; I have treasured the words from his mouth more than my daily food.
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, ‘What is it? ’ because they didn’t know what it was. Moses told them, ‘It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.
When they measured it by litres, the person who gathered a lot had no surplus, and the person who gathered a little had no shortage. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat.
Understand that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he will give you two days’ worth of bread. Each of you stay where you are; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day.’
The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.
Making a fortune through a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death. ,,
The one who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
‘Absolute futility,’ says the Teacher. ‘Absolute futility. Everything is futile.’
Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
No one makes claims justly; no one pleads honestly. They trust in empty and worthless words; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.
So King Zedekiah gave orders, and Jeremiah was placed in the guard’s courtyard. He was given a loaf of bread each day from the bakers’ street until all the bread was gone from the city. So Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard.
As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, for the rest of his life.
But seek first the kingdom of God , and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.
Then he said to them, ‘Now draw some out and take it to the head waiter.’ And they did.
‘People! Why are you doing these things? We are people also, just like you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them. ,