Proverbs 23:5

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.

Cross References

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father will say to them, Me ye bereaved of children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin: all these things were against me.

Job 27:19

The rich one shall lie down, and he shall not be gathered: he opened his eyes, and he is not

Psalm 39:6

Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.

Proverbs 27:24

For not strength forever, and not consecration to generation and generation.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.

Isaiah 55:2

Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.

Jeremiah 22:17

For thine eyes and thy heart not but for thy plunder and for guiltless blood to pour out, and for oppression and for running, to do.

Jeremiah 39:12

Take him and set thine eyes upon him, and thou shalt do to him nothing evil; but as he shall speak to thee thus do to him.

Matthew 6:19

Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:

1 Timothy 6:17

To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;

1 John 2:16

For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.