Proverbs 23:5

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Will your eyes fly on it? And it is not! For making it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

Cross References

Genesis 42:36

And their father Jacob said to them, You have bereaved me. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin? All of these are against me.

Job 27:19

The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is not.

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man walks about in shadow; surely they are in an uproar in vain; he heaps up and does not know who is gathering them.

Proverbs 27:24

for wealth is not forever, nor the crown from generation and generation.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity!

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you weigh out silver for that which is not bread, and your labor for what is not to satisfaction? Listening, listen to Me and eat the good; and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart lust for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and injury, and to do oppression.

Jeremiah 39:12

Take him and set your eyes on him. But do not do anything evil to him, but do with him even as he shall say to you.

Matthew 6:19

Do not treasure up for you treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves dig through and steal.

1 Timothy 6:17

Charge the rich in the age now, not to be high-minded, nor to set hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, the One offering to us richly all things for enjoyment;

1 John 2:16

because everything in the world: the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.