World English Bible
"Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky."
— Proverbs 23:5, World English Bible
“Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.”
“Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? Forrichescertainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven. ”
“When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!”
“Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.”
“Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.”
“Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.”
put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:
for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.