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Proverbs 30:8

The order of the two requests is significant. The wise man' s prayer is first and chiefly, "truth in the inward parts," the removal of all forms of falsehood, hollowness, hypocrisy.

Neither poverty ... - The evil of the opposite extremes of social life is that in different ways they lead men to a false standard of duty, and so to that forgetfulness of God which passes into an absolute denial.

Food convenient for me - literally, "give me for food the bread of my appointed portion." The prayer foreshadows that which we have been taught by the Divine Wisdom: "Give us, day by day, our daily bread."

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Proverbs 30:8:

Job 23:12
Proverbs 30:10
Proverbs 31:15

 

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