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Do not tire in order to become rich;
    out of your understanding, may you desist.
Your eyes will alight[a] on it, but there is nothing to it,
    for suddenly it will make for itself wings
    like an eagle and it will be exhausted in the heavens.
Do not eat the bread of the stingy,[b]
    and do not desire his delicacies.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:5 Literally “cause to fly”
  2. Proverbs 23:6 Literally “stingy of eye”