4Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.


In Context

1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:

2 And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.

3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:

Proverbs 23:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:4Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:4Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:4Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:4Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:4Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:4Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:4Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:4Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.