Proverbs 23:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 1 For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Weary not yourself to be rich; cease from your own [human] wisdom. [Prov. 28:20; I Tim. 6:9, 10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.

Common English Bible

⁴ Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich; be smart enough to stop.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Do not be willing to labor so that you may be enriched. But set limits by your prudence.

Proverbs 23:4 Cross References

Job 27:19

Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein it is melted.

Proverbs 15:27

It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to govern the tongue.

Proverbs 26:12

9 So is the man that hurteth his friend deceitfully: and when he is taken, saith: I did it in jest.

Proverbs 27:24

They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.

Proverbs 28:20

7 He that giveth to the poor, shall not want: he that despiseth his entreaty, shall suffer indigence.

Proverbs 3:5

2 For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself.

Proverbs 3:7

4 The purchasing thereof is better than the merchandise of silver, and her fruit than the chiefest and purest gold:

Ecclesiastes 5:13

0 For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight,

Isaiah 5:21

9 Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.

Jeremiah 9:22

He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.

Matthew 6:19

7 And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature by one cubit?

Mark 4:19

7 And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.

John 6:27

5 And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst.

Romans 11:25

3 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

Romans 12:16

For he is God's minister to thee, for good. But if thou do that which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is God's minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil.

Hebrews 13:5

4 For we have not here a lasting city, but we seek one that is to come.