Proverbs 23:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist.

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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

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”

Proverbs 28:20

The faithful will abound with blessings, but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.

Matthew 6:19

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal,

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”

Romans 12:16

Live in harmony with one another; do not be arrogant, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are.

Proverbs 15:27

Those greedy for unjust gain make trouble for their households, but those who hate bribes will live.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

Isaiah 5:21

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and shrewd in their own sight!

Proverbs 3:7

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

Romans 11:25

I want you to understand this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not claim to be wiser than you are: a hardening has come upon part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles has come in.

Mark 4:19

but the cares of the age and the lure of wealth and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it yields nothing.

Job 27:19

They go to bed with wealth but will do so no more; they open their eyes, and it is gone.

Proverbs 27:24

for riches do not last forever, nor a crown for all generations.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous ill that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owners to their hurt,

Jeremiah 9:22

Speak! Thus says the Lord: “Human corpses shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves behind the reaper, and no one shall gather them.”