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Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.
Proverbs 23:5 · Webster 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 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [art] a man given to appetite.
3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful food.
4 Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.
5 Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.
6 Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties:
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.
8 The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
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