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Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Proverbs 23:5 · New Heart English Bible
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Proverbs 23:5 in other translations
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
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In context
2 put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
3 Do not be desirous of his dainties, seeing they are deceitful food.
4 Do not weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
6 Do not eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and do not crave his delicacies:
7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
8 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
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