Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
New American Standard Bible
For
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
King James Version
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Holman Bible
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.
International Standard Version
When you fix your gaze on it, it's gone, for it sprouts wings for itself and flies to the sky like an eagle.
American Standard Version
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
Amplified
When you set your eyes on wealth, it is [suddenly] gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies to the heavens.
Darby Translation
wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.
King James 2000
Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your eyes will {alight} on it, but there is nothing [to] it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted [in] the heavens.
Modern King James verseion
Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.
NET Bible
When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
New Heart English Bible
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
The Emphasized Bible
Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.
Webster
Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.
World English Bible
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Youngs Literal Translation
For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
Themes
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Eagles, a type of swiftness
Consideration » What to consider
Eagles » Illustrative » (swiftness of,) of the melting away of riches
Eagles » Described as » Soaring to heaven
Eagles » Eagles, a type of swiftness
Riches » Described as » Fleeting
earthly Riches » The perils of » Fleeting and uncertain
Interlinear
`uwph
`ayin
Kanaph
`uwph
Word Count of 19 Translations in Proverbs 23:5
Images Proverbs 23:5
Prayers for Proverbs 23:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Living With Your Neighbor
4 Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money 5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven. 6 Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 27:24
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
1 Timothy 6:17
Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.
Job 1:14-17
And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:
Psalm 39:6
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
Psalm 119:36-37
Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 5:13-14
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Matthew 6:19
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;
James 5:1-2
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
1 John 2:16
Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.