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Do not tire in order to become rich;
    out of your understanding, may you desist.
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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Footnotes

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

Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;(A)
stop giving your attention to it.
As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,(B)
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.

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