Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
⛓ Read Proverbs 30 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Feed me with the food that is needful for me' (Agur's prayer for neither poverty nor riches, just the daily portion) — the closest OT analogue to 'Give us today our daily bread,' both asking for sufficient daily provision.
High confidenceAgur's plea "feed me with the food that is needful for me" matches the bread petition's modest sufficiency and may inform the rare word epiousios. A strong thematic and lexical candidate for the source of "daily bread."
Medium confidence