Matthew Henry · Verses 4–5
Be not of those that will be rich. The things of this world are not happiness and a portion for a soul; those that hold them ever so fast, cannot hold them always, cannot hold them long.
Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
World English Bible
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WEBBE
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
BSB
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
KJV
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
ASV
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
BBE
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
Original Hebrew
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הֲתָעִיף
ha·ta·'uf
¿ do you cause to fly
H5774
עֵינֶיךָ
'ei·nei·kha
eyes your
H5869
בּוֹ
bo
on it
H9033
וְאֵינֶנּוּ
ve·'ei·ne·nu
and there not [is] it
H369
כִּי
ki
for
H3588
עָשֹׂה
'a·soh
certainly (to make)
H6213
יַעֲשֶׂה־
ya·'a·seh-
it makes
H6213
לּוֹ
lo
for itself
H9033
כְנָפַיִם
khe·na·fa·yim
wings
H3671
כְּנֶשֶׁר
ke·ne·sher
like an eagle
H5404
יָעוּף
ve·'a·yef
it flies away
H5774
הַשָּׁמָיִם פ
ha·sha·ma·yim
the heavens
H8064
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