Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Context
This verse from Proverbs Chapter 23 connects to 10 cross-references. Warnings about dining with rulers, pursuing wealth, moving boundary stones, and the dangers of wine and the adulteress. The father pleads with his son to listen and buy truth and not sell it. The image of the drunken man who …
תרגומים נוספים
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? Forrichescertainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
הפניות צולבות
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is …
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon …
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth …
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to …
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.