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Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich;
    be wise enough to ·control [stop] yourself.
·Wealth can vanish in the wink of an eye [L Your eye can fly to it and it will be gone].
    It can seem to grow wings
and fly away like an eagle.

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(A)Do not weary yourself to gain wealth;
[a](B)Stop dwelling on 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 Lit Refrain from your understanding of it
  2. Proverbs 23:5 Lit Will your eyes fly upon it and it is not?