Proverbs 23:4
Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
In Context
3Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it [is] lying food.
5For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:5Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.
Proverbs 15:27A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.
Proverbs 27:24For riches [are] not to the age, 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 — an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering.
John 6:27work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal — [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 →