Proverbs 23:5
Will you let your eyes light upon it? 1 It will be gone, 1 for it will surely take up wings like an eagle 1 and fly off to the sky. 1
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4Do not work too hard to gain wealth; 1 be wise enough to know when to stop. 1
6Do not eat the food of one with an evil eye— 1 and do not crave his delicacies, 1
Cross References
Job 1:14A messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them.
Psalms 39:6Surely every man walks about like a shadow. 1 Surely everyone hurries about 1 to accumulate riches although they do not know who will receive them. 1
Proverbs 27:24for wealth is not forever. 1 Does a crown endure for all generations? 1
Ecclesiastes 5:13There is an evil that I have seen under the sun: 1 riches hoarded by the owner, resulting in his own misery. 1
Isaiah 55:2Why do you weigh out silver for what is not bread, and why do you labor for what does not satisfy? 1 Listen carefully to me and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in fatness. 1
Jeremiah 39:12“Take him and care for him. Do not harm him. Do for him anything he tells you.”
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 →