Proverbs 23:4
Do not labor to make wealth, || Cease from your own understanding, || Do you cause your eyes to fly on it? Then it is not.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
In Context
3Have no desire to his delicacies, seeing it [is] lying food.
5For wealth makes wings to itself, || It flies to the heavens as an eagle.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:5Trust to YHWH with all your heart, || And do not lean to your own understanding.
Proverbs 15:27A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, || And whoever is hating gifts lives.
Proverbs 27:24For riches [are] not for all time, || Nor a crown to generation and generation.
Ecclesiastes 5:13There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
Jeremiah 9:22Speak thus, “A declaration of YHWH, || And the carcass of man has fallen, || As dung on the face of the field, || And as a handful after the reaper, || And there is none gathering.”
John 6:27do not work for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to continuous life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for the Father sealed Him—[even] God.”
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 →