Proverbs 23:5

Young's Literal Translation 1898

For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

Cross References

Genesis 42:36

and Jacob their father saith unto them, `Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take--against me have been all these.'

Job 27:19

Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.

Psalm 39:6

Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

Proverbs 27:24

For riches are not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole is vanity.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

Jeremiah 22:17

But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

Jeremiah 39:12

`Take him, and place thine eyes upon him, and do no evil thing to him, but as he speaketh unto thee, so do with him.'

Matthew 6:19

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

1 Timothy 6:17

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for 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 ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,