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Proverbs 30:9

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9Otherwise, I might have too muchag

and deny you,ah saying, “Who is the Lord?”ai

or I might have nothing and steal,aj

profaningE the name of my God.ak

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Proverbs 30:8–9: Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the LORD?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.

Footnotes

  1. E grabbing

Cross references

  1. agDt 6:10–12; 8:11–14
  2. ahJos 24:27; Jb 31:28
  3. aiEx 5:2
  4. ajEx 20:5; Eph 4:28
  5. akLv 19:11–12

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

lest I be full and deny you

and say, “Who is the Lord?”

or lest I be poor and steal

and profane the name of my God.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you

and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’

Or I may become poor and steal,

and so dishonor the name of my God.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

NLTNew Living Translation

For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?”

And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Or else I will be satisfied and will deny him

and say “Who is Yahweh?”

Or I will be poor and will steal

and profane the name of my God.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

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