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Proverbs 23:4
Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Proverbs 23:4 · World English Bible
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Proverbs 23:4 in other translations
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
Do not weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
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In context
1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
2 put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
3 Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
4 Don’t 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 Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t 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.
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