Proverbs 23:5

Tree of Life Version

When you cast your eyes 0n riches, it is gone; for it surely sprouts wings and flies off into the sky like an eagle.

Cross References

Genesis 42:36

Then their father Jacob said to them, “You’ve made me childless! Joseph is no more. Now Simeon is gone, and next you’ll take Benjamin! Everything is against me!”

Job 27:19

“He lies down wealthy, but will gather no more. When he opens his eyes, all is gone!

Psalm 39:6

Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah

Proverbs 27:24

for riches are not forever, nor a crown from generation to generation.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Futile! Futile! says Kohelet. Completely meaningless! Everything is futile!

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Evanescent vapors,” says Kohelet. All is futility.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend money for what is not bread? Your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance.

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart are only on your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and committing extortion and fraud.”

Jeremiah 39:12

“Take him, and look after him, and do no harm to him; rather, do to him just as he tells you.”

Matthew 6:19

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

1 Timothy 6:17

Direct those who are rich in this present age not to be proud or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God—who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

1 John 2:16

For everything in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the boasting of life—is not from the Father but from the world.