Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me; lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
⛓ 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.
Agur's prayer, 'feed me with the food that is needful for me,' seeking neither poverty nor riches, supplies the ideal of sufficiency behind 'having food and clothing, we will be content.' The wisdom request for daily necessities is the closest sapiential parallel to v.8.
Medium confidenceAgur's prayer 'give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful' supplies the wisdom ideal of contentment in either abundance or want that Paul claims to have learned (filled or hungry, abound or be in need). Coherence is strong on the sufficiency-in-any-state theme; volume is moderate since Paul reworks rather than cites.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Agur's prayer against riches that lead one to deny God and against poverty that leads to theft frames wealth as spiritually perilous. This wisdom ambivalence about riches faintly supports the warning that the rich not be haughty nor trust their wealth.
Low confidence