Proverbs 23:5

New English Translation

When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!

Cross References

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

Job 27:19

He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

Psalm 39:6

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

Proverbs 27:24

for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher, “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Absolutely futile!” laments the Teacher, “All of these things are futile!”

Isaiah 55:2

Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!

Jeremiah 22:17

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

Jeremiah 39:12

“Find Jeremiah and look out for him. Do not do anything to harm him, but do with him whatever he tells you.”

Matthew 6:19

“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this world’s goods not to be haughty or to set their hope on riches, which are uncertain, but on God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.

1 John 2:16

because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.