Proverbs 23:5

Modern King James Version

Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

Cross References

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin. All these things 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 like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.

Proverbs 27:24

For riches are not forever; nor the crown from generation to 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 silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

Jeremiah 39:12

Take him, and set your eyes on him, and do him no evil. But do with him even as he shall say to you.

Matthew 6:19

Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

1 Timothy 6:17

Charge the rich in this world that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, He offering to us richly all things to enjoy,

1 John 2:16

because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.