5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.


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:

7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. |Eat and drink!| he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Proverbs 23:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:5Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:5Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:5wilt 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:5Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:5For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:5Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.