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!”
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. 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. |
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!”
“He lies down wealthy, but will gather no more. When he opens his eyes, all is gone!
Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah
for riches are not forever, nor a crown from generation to generation.
Futile! Futile! says Kohelet. Completely meaningless! Everything is futile!
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.
“But your eyes and your heart are only on your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and committing extortion and fraud.”
“Take him, and look after him, and do no harm to him; rather, do to him just as he tells you.”
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
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.
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.