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Proverbs 23:4-5
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4 (A)Do not toil to acquire wealth;
    (B)be discerning enough to desist.
5 When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
    (C)for suddenly it sprouts wings,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.

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Proverbs 23:4-5
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4 Do not tire in order to become rich;
    out of your understanding, may you desist.
5 Your eyes will alight[a] 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.

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  1. Proverbs 23:5 Literally “cause to fly”
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