Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Holman Bible
stop giving your attention to it.
International Standard Version
Don't exhaust yourself acquiring wealth; be smart enough to stop.
American Standard Version
Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.
Amplified
Do not weary yourself [with the overwhelming desire] to gain wealth;
Cease from your own understanding of it.
Bible in Basic English
Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money
Darby Translation
Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not labor to become rich: cease from thy wisdom.
King James 2000
Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not tire [in order] to become rich; out of your understanding, [may you] desist
Modern King James verseion
Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own understanding.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Take not over great travail and labour to be rich, beware of such a purpose.
NET Bible
Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
New Heart English Bible
Do not weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not toil to get wealth, of thine own understanding, forbear:
Webster
Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.
World English Bible
Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Proverbs 23:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Living With Your Neighbor
3 Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food. 4 Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not. 5 For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
Phrases
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Cross References
Proverbs 28:20
A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.
Proverbs 3:5
Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.
Proverbs 26:12
Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!
Isaiah 5:21
Woe to the wise in their own eyes, And -- before their own faces -- intelligent!
Romans 12:16
of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;
Hebrews 13:5
Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, 'No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'
Proverbs 3:7
Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.
Proverbs 15:27
A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.
Matthew 6:19
'Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,
John 6:27
work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- even God.'
Romans 11:25
For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;
1 Timothy 6:8-10
but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves;