Proverbs 23:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? For riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.

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  • Prov 27:24 : 24 For riches remaine not alway, nor the crowne from generation to generation.
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, & that they trust not in vncertaine riches, but in the liuing God, (which giueth vs aboundatly, all things to enioy)
  • Jas 5:1-2 : 1 Go to nowe, ye rich men: weepe, and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you. 2 Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in this world (as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) is not of the Father, but is of this world.
  • Gen 42:36 : 36 Then Iaakob their father said to them, Ye haue robbed me of my children: Ioseph is not, & Simeon is not, and ye will take Beniamin: all these things are against me.
  • Job 1:14-17 : 14 There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places, 15 And the Shabeans came violently, and tooke them: yea, they haue slayne the seruants with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayde, The fire of God is fallen from the heauen, & hath burnt vp the sheepe and the seruants, and deuoured them: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. 17 And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayd, The Caldeans set on three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue taken them, and haue slayne the seruantes with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
  • Ps 119:36-37 : 36 Incline mine heart vnto thy testimonies, and not to couetousnesse. 37 Turne away mine eies from regarding vanitie, and quicken me in thy way.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanitie of vanities, sayth the Preacher: vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.
  • Eccl 5:13-14 : 13 (5:12) There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill. 14 (5:13) And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.
  • Eccl 12:8 : 8 Vanitie of vanities, saieth the Preacher, all is vanitie.
  • Isa 55:2 : 2 Wherefore doe ye lay out siluer and not for bread? and your labour without being satisfied? hearken diligently vnto me, and eate that which is good, and let your soule delite in fatnes.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thine heart are but only for thy couetousnesse, and for to sheade innocent blood, and for oppression, and for destruction, euen to doe this.
  • Matt 6:19 : 19 Lay not vp treasures for your selues vpon the earth, where the mothe & canker corrupt, and where theeues digge through and steale.
  • 1 Cor 7:29-31 : 29 And this I say, brethren, because the time is short, hereafter that both they which haue wiues, be as though they had none: 30 And they that weepe, as though they wept not: and they that reioyce, as though they reioyced not: and they that bye, as though they possessed not: 31 And they that vse this worlde, as though they vsed it not: for the fashion of this worlde goeth away.

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    3Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.

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  • Prov 28:22
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  • Prov 23:6
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    6Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.

  • Jer 17:11
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    11As the partryche gathereth the yong, which she hath not brought forth: so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leaue them in the middes of his dayes, and at his ende shall bee a foole.

  • Ps 62:10
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    10Trust not in oppression nor in robberie: be not vaine: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.

  • Prov 27:23-24
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    23Be diligent to know ye state of thy flocke, and take heede to the heardes.

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  • Job 28:7
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    7There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.

  • Eccl 5:10-11
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    10(5:9) He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie.

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  • Prov 13:7
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    7There is that maketh himselfe riche, and hath nothing, and that maketh himselfe poore, hauing great riches.

  • Hab 2:9
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    9Ho, he that coueteth an euil couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on hie, to escape from the power of euil.

  • Job 36:19
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    19Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.

  • Prov 28:20
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    20A faythfull man shall abound in blessings, and he that maketh haste to be riche, shall not be innocent.

  • Prov 11:28
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    28He that trusteth in his riches, shall fall: but the righteous shall florish as a leafe.

  • Jer 5:27
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    27As a cage is full of birdes, so are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are become great and waxen riche.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    13(5:12) There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill.

    14(5:13) And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.

  • Ps 49:6
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    6They trust in their goods, and boast them selues in the multitude of their riches.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

  • Luke 12:21
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    21So is he that gathereth riches to himselfe, and is not riche in God.

  • Eccl 10:20
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    20Curse not the King, no not in thy thought, neither curse the rich in thy bed chamber: for the foule of the heauen shall carie the voice, & that which hath wings, shall declare the matter.

  • 1 Tim 6:17
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    17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, & that they trust not in vncertaine riches, but in the liuing God, (which giueth vs aboundatly, all things to enioy)

  • Job 9:26
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  • Prov 1:17
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    17Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:

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    19When the rich man sleepeth, he shal not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

  • Matt 6:19
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    19Lay not vp treasures for your selues vpon the earth, where the mothe & canker corrupt, and where theeues digge through and steale.

  • Eccl 6:9
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  • Prov 5:10
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    11The riches of vanitie shal diminish: but he that gathereth with the hand, shall increase them.

  • Job 39:26-27
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    26(39:29) Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South?

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    16Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase him selfe, and giueth vnto the riche, shall surely come to pouertie.

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    2Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten.

  • Job 15:29
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    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.

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    33Sell that ye haue, and giue almes: make you bagges, which waxe not old, a treasure that can neuer faile in heauen, where no theefe commeth, neither mothe corrupteth.

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    4Though thou exalt thy selfe as the egle, and make thy nest among the starres, thence will I bring thee downe, sayth the Lord.

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    12Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,

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  • Job 35:5
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    5Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou.

  • Ezek 28:5
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    5By thy great wisedome and by thine occupying hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted vp because of thy riches.

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  • Prov 28:27
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    27He that giueth vnto the poore, shall not lacke: but he that hideth his eyes, shall haue many curses.

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    4Riches auaile not in the day of wrath: but righteousnes deliuereth from death.