Proverbs 23:5
For wealth makes wings to itself, || It flies to the heavens as an eagle.
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6Do not eat the bread of an evil eye, || And have no desire to his delicacies,
Cross References
Job 1:14And a messenger has come to Job and says, “The oxen have been plowing, and the female donkeys feeding by their sides,
Psalms 39:6Only, each habitually walks in an image, || Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, || He heaps up and does not know who gathers them.
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.
Isaiah 55:2Why do you weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which is not for satiety? Listen diligently to Me, and eat good, || And your soul delights itself in fatness.
Jeremiah 39:12“Take him, and place your eyes on him, and do no evil thing to him, but as he speaks to you, so do with him.”
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 →