Proverbs 23:5
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
In context
3 Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
5 When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23:5 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
- KJV King James Version
- Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
- WEB World English Bible
- Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
- DBY Darby Translation
- wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.