Ya`akov, their father, said to them, *You have bereaved me of my children! Yosef is no more, Shim`on is no more, and you want to take Binyamin away. All these things are against me.*
Proverbs 23:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Will you set your eyes upon wealth, when [suddenly] it is gone? For riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flies toward the heavens. American Standard Version (1901) Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven. Common English Bible When your eyes fly to wealth it is gone; it grows wings like an eagle and flies heavenward. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not raise your eyes toward wealth that you are not able to have. For they will make themselves wings, like those of an eagle, and they will fly in the sky. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven. |
Ya`akov, their father, said to them, *You have bereaved me of my children! Yosef is no more, Shim`on is no more, and you want to take Binyamin away. All these things are against me.*
He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
*Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
*Vanity of vanities,* says Kohelet; *Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.*
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to him even as he shall tell you.
*Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.