Proverbs 30:7-9

New International Reader's Version

⁷ “Lord, I ask you for two things.
    Don’t refuse me before I die.
⁸ Keep lies far away from me.
    Don’t make me either poor or rich,
    but give me only the bread I need each day.
⁹ If you don’t, I might have too much.
    Then I might say I don’t know you.
    I might say, ‘Who is the Lord?’
Or I might become poor and steal.
    Then I would bring shame to the name of my God.