What Does Proverbs 30:7 Mean in the King James?
Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The speaker places a plea against the boundary of death: what is asked must not be withheld before life ends.
THE MEANING
Two things are asked of God, and the speaker pleads that neither be withheld before death. The requests remain unnamed here, so the urgency arrives before their content: need and the finite time around it stand together.
THE ROOT
שָׁאַלְתִּי
sha'alti
GROWS FROM
שאל
sha'al
To ask, inquire, or request.
“required” in this verse is sha'alti. The verb names a request voiced toward another, while the speaker also names withholding as the feared response. Its noun branches carry asking into petition and request, linking the speaker’s voice to the answer sought.
ALSO GROWS
she'elah: A question, petition, or request.
שְׁאֵלָה
It names a request brought before a hearer, echoing the speaker’s appeal for two things.
mish'al: A petition or requested thing.
מִשְׁאָל
It carries the act of asking into what is sought, illuminating the speaker’s unnamed requests.
THE PATTERN
A need becomes a spoken request directed toward the one from whom an answer can come.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.THE THREAD
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.The same root שאל (sha’al, “ask” or “request”) appears here as a plea and there as an invitation to ask. Both place the request in direct relation to the one who can answer.
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