4Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
4Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
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:
23:4Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
23:4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint.
23:4Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
23:4Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.
23:4Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
23:4Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
23:4Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.
23:4Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
23:4Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.