Proverbs 23:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

Cross References

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.

Job 27:19

He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

Psalm 39:6

Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

Proverbs 27:24

For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

Jeremiah 39:12

Take him and keep an eye on him and see that no evil comes to him; but do with him whatever he says to you.

Matthew 6:19

Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

1 Timothy 6:17

Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;

1 John 2:16

Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.