Proverbs 23:5
Will you set yours eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
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In Context
4Labour not to be rich: cease from yours own wisdom.
6Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
Cross References
Job 1:14And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
Psalms 39:6Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
Proverbs 27:24For riches are not for ever: and does the crown endure to every generation?
Ecclesiastes 5:13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Isaiah 55:2Wherefore do all of you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfies not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat all of you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Jeremiah 39:12Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto 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 →