Proverbs 23:5

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Raise not thine eyes to riches, which thou mayest not have; for those [or they] shall make to them-selves pens or wings, as of an eagle, and they shall fly into heaven.

Cross References

Genesis 42:36

their father Jacob said, Ye have made me to be without children; Joseph is not alive, Simeon is holden in bonds, ye shall take away from me Benjamin; all these evils have fallen in on me.

Job 27:19

A rich man, when he shall die, shall bear nothing with him; he shall open his eyes, and he shall find nothing.

Psalm 39:6

Nevertheless a man passeth in an image; but also he is troubled vainly. He treasureth; and he know not, to whom he shall gather those things.

Proverbs 27:24

For thou shalt not have power continually; but a crown shall be given to thee in generation and into generation[s].

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes; vanity of vanities, and all things be vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

The vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, the vanity of vanities, and all things be vanity. [Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, vanity of vanities, and all things vanity.]

Isaiah 55:2

Why weigh ye silver, and not in loaves, and your travail, not in fullness? Ye hearing hear me, and eat ye good things, and your soul shall delight in fatness.

Jeremiah 22:17

Forsooth thine eyes and heart be to avarice, and to shed innocent blood, and to false challenge, and to the performing of evil work.

Jeremiah 39:12

Take thou him, and set thine eyes on him, and do thou nothing of evil to him; but as he will, so do thou to him.

Matthew 6:19

Do not ye treasure to you treasures [here] in earth, where rust and moth destroyeth, and where thieves delve out, and steal;

1 Timothy 6:17

Command thou to the rich men of this world, that they understand not highly [or proudly], neither that they hope in uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, that giveth to us all things plenteously to use;

1 John 2:16

For all thing that is in the world, is covetousness of flesh, and covetousness of eyes, and pride of life, which is not of the Father, but it is of the world.