⁸ Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,

¹¹ `Our appointed bread give us to-day.

⁶ but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment;

⁷ for nothing did we bring into the world -- `it is' manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;

⁸ but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves;

³ our appointed bread be giving us daily;

²⁹ The way of falsehood turn aside from me And with Thy law favour me.

⁹ Only -- vanity `are' the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity `are' lighter.

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

² Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.

¹⁸ Wo `to' those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as `with' thick ropes of the cart -- sin.

²¹ And the king Zedekiah commandeth, and they commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, also to give to him a cake of bread daily from the bakers' street, till the consumption of all the bread of the city, and Jeremiah dwelleth in the court of the prison.

³⁴ And his allowance -- a continual allowance -- hath been given to him by the king of Babylon, the matter of a day in its day, till the day of his death -- all days of his life.

³³ but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

⁸ and he saith to them, `Draw out, now, and bear to the director of the apartment;' and they bare.

¹⁵ and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;

⁵ For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

⁸ Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

²⁰ And Jacob voweth a vow, saying, `Seeing God is with me, and hath kept me in this way which I am going, and hath given to me bread to eat, and a garment to put on --

¹⁵ And he blesseth Joseph, and saith, `God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked habitually: God who is feeding me from my being unto this day:

¹⁶ the Messenger who is redeeming me from all evil doth bless the youths, and my name is called upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and they increase into a multitude in the midst of the land.'

¹⁵ And the sons of Israel see, and say one unto another, `What `is' it?' for they have not known what it `is'; and Moses saith unto them, `It `is' the bread which Jehovah hath given to you for food.

¹⁸ and they measure with an omer, and he who is `gathering' much hath nothing over, and he who is `gathering' little hath no lack, each according to his eating they have gathered.

²¹ And they gather it morning by morning, each according to his eating; when the sun hath been warm, then it hath melted.

²² And it cometh to pass on the sixth day, they have gathered a second bread, two omers for one, and all the princes of the company come in, and declare to Moses.

²⁹ see, because Jehovah hath given to you the sabbath, therefore He is giving to you on the sixth day bread of two days; abide ye each `in' his place, no one doth go out from his place on the seventh day.'

³⁵ And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna forty years, until their coming in unto the land to be inhabited; the manna they have eaten till their coming in unto the extremity of the land of Canaan.

³⁰ and his allowance -- a continual allowance -- hath been given to him from the king, the matter of a day in its day, all days of his life.

¹² The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

³⁷ Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

⁶ The making of treasures by a lying tongue, `Is' a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

⁴ There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.