Proverbs 23:4
World English Bible (WEB)
Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
In context
2 put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
3 Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
4 Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
6 Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
Proverbs 23:4 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
- KJV King James Version
- Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
- WBS Webster Bible
- Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.