Proverbs 23:5
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Proverbs 23:5 (King James Version)
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
- thou
- Psalms 119:36 Psalms 119:37 ; Jeremiah 22:17 ; 1 John 2:16
- set thine eyes upon
- Hebrew cause thine eyes to fly upon, etc.
- "He expresses it in such a way," says Abp. Tillotson, "as if a rich man sat brooding over an estate till it was fledged, and gotten itself wings to fly away."
- that which
- Genesis 42:36 ; Ecclesiastes 1:2 ; 12:8 Isaiah 55:2 ; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31
- riches
- 27:24 Job 1:14-17 ; Psalms 39:6 ; Ecclesiastes 5:13 Ecclesiastes 5:14 ; Matthew 6:19 ; 1 Timothy 6:17
- James 5:1 James 5:2