Proverbs 23:4
Do not be willing to labor so that you may be enriched. But set limits by your prudence.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
In Context
3Do not desire his foods, in which is the bread of deceit.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:5Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence.
Proverbs 15:27Whoever pursues avarice disturbs his own house. But whoever hates bribes shall live. Through mercy and faith, sins are purged. But through the fear of the Lord, each one turns aside from evil.
Proverbs 27:24for you will not always hold this power. But a crown shall be awarded from generation to generation.
Ecclesiastes 5:13For they are lost in a most grievous affliction. He has produced a son, who will be in the utmost destitution.
Jeremiah 9:22“Speak: Thus says the Lord: And the corpses of men will fall like manure over the face of the countryside, and like hay behind the back of the reaper, and there will be no one to gather it.”
John 6:27Do not work for food that perishes, but for that which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:2-4
Cautions against Luxury and Covetousness. 1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. The sin we are here warned against is luxury and sensuality, and the indulgence of the appetite in eating and drinking, a sin that most easily besets us. 1. We are here told when we enter into temptation, and are in most danger of falling into this sin: " When… Read the whole commentary →