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(A)Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,
(B)Because of your understanding, cease!
Do you make your eyes fly up to see it? But it is not there!
Because (C)it certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

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(A)Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,
(B)Cease from your [a]consideration of it.
[b]When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For (C)wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:4 Or understanding
  2. Proverbs 23:5 Lit Will your eyes fly upon it and it is not?