Proverbs 23:4
Nyle thou trauele to be maad riche, but sette thou mesure to thi prudence.
Bible (Wycliffe)
In The King James Version
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
In Context
3desire thou not of his metis, in whom is the breed of `a leesing.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:5Haue thou trist in the Lord, of al thin herte; and triste thou not to thi prudence.
Proverbs 15:27He that sueth aueryce, disturblith his hous; but he that hatith yiftis schal lyue. Synnes ben purgid bi merci and feith; ech man bowith awei fro yuel bi the drede of the Lord.
Proverbs 27:24For thou schalt not haue power contynueli; but a coroun schal be youun to thee in generacioun and in to generacioun.
Ecclesiastes 5:13For thei perischen in the worste turment; he gendride a sone, that schal be in souereyn nedynesse.
Jeremiah 9:22Speke thou, the Lord seith, these thingis, And the deed bodi of a man schal fal doun as a toord on the face of the cuntrei, and as hei bihynde the bak of the mowere, and noon is that gaderith.
John 6:27Worche ye not mete that perischith, but that dwellith in to euerlastynge lijf, which mete mannys sone schal yyue to you; for God the fadir hath markid hym.