Proverbs 23:5
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
6Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
Cross References
Job 1:14a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
Proverbs 27:24for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.
Ecclesiastes 5:13There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
Isaiah 55:2Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
Jeremiah 39:12“Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:5-6
4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. As some are given to appetite ( v. 2 ) so others to covetousness, and those Solomon here takes to task. Men cheat themselves as much by setting their hearts on money (though it seems most substantial) as by setting them on dainties. Observe, I. How he dissuades the covetous man from toiling and tormenting himself ( v. 4 ). "Do… Read the whole commentary →