 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: 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.  The Nineteenth Century - Page 2951897Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 446 pages
...choice of one who was eminent for wisdom. Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with food convenient for me. Lest...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain *. FROM the whole view which we have now taken of the subject, we may, in the first place, learn the... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 pages
...than I hat of Agur : " Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty ;ior riches ; iced me with food convenient for me. Lest I be full, and...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Prov. xxx.8, 9. Readfer, are you in the flower of life ? — study to be useful : now you have health,... | |
 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 pages
...Agur prayed, " Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient : Jest I be full, and say, Who is the Lord? Or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Perhaps the middle ranks of society are the least exposed; but they have enough to do t6 keep " a conscience... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 342 pages
...poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Whp is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.' F 3 I shall fill the remaining part of my paper with a very pretty allegory, which is wrought into... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...teed me with food convenient for me : 9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say. Who is the Lo n D ? wife the Carmelite. 3 And his men that were with him did David bri 10 Accuse not a servant unto his Four wicked generations. CHAP. master, lest he curse thee, and thou... | |
 | Thomas Beck - 1809 - 226 pages
...; feed mo with food convenient for me, lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, " Who is the Lord f" .or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. Proverbs, xxs. 1, 8, 9. KEEP me, O Lord, until I die ! Enlighten'd fervent Agur cries ; From want too... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 676 pages
...Proverbs xxx. 9. Agur prays against pinching poverty, as well as superfluous riches ; Lest, saith he, / be poor, and steal, and take the Name of my God in vain. That is, lest poverty compel me to steal; and fear of shame or punishment tempt me to swear by the... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 314 pages
...thee ; deny me them not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me :...and steal, and take the name- of my God in vain.' I shall fill the remaining part of my paper with a very pretty allegory, which is wrought into a play... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 614 pages
...kingdom, Prov. xxx. Therefore Agur presented this excellent prayer unto God, " Give me neither poverty nor riches •, feed me with food convenient for me...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Wretched man ! to what purpose dost thou labour so carefully to gather up riches for thy children ?... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1810 - 242 pages
...for ourselves, every wise man would say with Agur in the book of Proverbs,* " Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me, lest...poor^ and steal, and take the name of my GOD in vain." But He, who best knows what is fit for us, has not left us this choice. He has * Proverbs xxx. 8, 9.... | |
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