Proverbs 23:4-5

English Standard Version

⁴^(A)Do not toil to acquire wealth;
    ^(B)be discerning enough to desist.
⁵When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
    ^(C)for suddenly it sprouts wings,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.

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Proverbs 23:4-5

New International Version

Saying 8

⁴Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
    do not trust your own cleverness.
⁵Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,^(A)
    for they will surely sprout wings
    and fly off to the sky like an eagle.^(B)

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Proverbs 23:4-5

King James Version

⁴Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

⁵Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

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