 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 300 pages
...Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth : 1 6 Remove far from me vanity and lies : give me neither...nor riches : feed me with food convenient for me. 17 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. She seeketh wool, and flax, and... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - Death - 1824 - 612 pages
...of his kingdom. Wherefore Aguroffers up this excellent prayer unto God, " Give me " neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : Lest I be full and deny thee, and say, c' Who is the Lord ? Or lest I be poor and steal, and take ' ' the name of my God in vain," Prov. xxx.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 273 pages
...human life,, and human happiness. Remember, and admire the wisdom of Agur's petition :," Remove fur from me vanity and lies- Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed mt with food convenient for me ; lest 1 be fall and deny thee ; :ind Pay, who is the Lord? or lest... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825
...lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing, xxxiv. 10. Remove far from me vanity and lies : give me neither...nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me, Prov. xxx. 8. Give us day by day our daily bread, Luke xi. 3. Our father did eat manna in the desert... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1825
...to pray ; in the spirit which Agur, in the prayer just mentioned, expresses, Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me. Lest I be full, and deny thce, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain f.... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825
...and thou be found a liar. 7 Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die : 8 by her. 27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, me With fpod convenient for me: 9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest... | |
 | William Cobbett - Agriculture - 1826 - 198 pages
...himself and family, is the very first duty of every man. ',' Two . things," says AGUR,, " have I asked ; deny me them " not before I die : remove far from...convenient for me : lest I be full and deny . " thee ; or lest I be poor and steal." 19. A good living, therefore, a competence, is the first thing to be... | |
 | John Kendall - Christian life - 1826 - 318 pages
...But Indigence hath its perils. Hence the prayer of wisdom has always been, " Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thee; and say, rrho is the Lord? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Sensible things... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - Bible - 1826
...and thou be found a liar. 7 Two things have I required of thce ; deny me them not before I die : if 8 venant of me wilh food convenient for me : 9 Lest 1 be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LOHD 7 or lest... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827
...temptations, to do that which is evil. To this purpose is that request of Agur : " Two things have I desired of thee. Deny me them not, before I die. Remove far...riches. Feed me with food convenient for me. Lest 1 be full, and deny thee, and say : Who is the Lord ? and lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name... | |
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