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.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 23:4-5
Guarded Desire, Wise Discipline, the Fear of the LORD, and Warnings Against Envy, Gluttony, Lust, and Drunkenness
The chapter moves through warnings about appetite and wealth, discernment at corrupt tables, protection of boundaries and the fatherless, heart-applied instruction and discipline, parental joy, fear of the LORD over envy, warnings against gluttony and drunkenness, honoring parents, buying truth, sexual purity, and a final extended portrait of wine's deceptive destruction.
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Verse 4
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Do not אַל־ H408 Adverb wear yourself out תִּיגַ֥ע H3021 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular to get rich לְֽהַעֲשִׁ֑יר H6238 Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct be wise enough מִֽבִּינָתְךָ֥ H998 Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular to restrain yourself חֲדָֽל׃ H2308 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Verse 5
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When you glance הֲתָעוּף H5774 Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular . . . עֵינֶ֥יךָ H5869 Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular [at wealth] בּ֗וֹ Preposition | third person masculine singular it disappears וְֽאֵ֫ינֶ֥נּוּ H369 Conjunctive waw | Adverb | third person masculine singular for כִּ֤י H3588 Conjunction it makes עָשֹׂ֣ה H6213 Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute . . . יַעֲשֶׂה־ H6213 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular wings for itself כְנָפַ֑יִם H3671 Noun - fd and flies וְעָיֵף H5774 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular like an eagle כְּ֝נֶ֗שֶׁר H5404 Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular to the sky הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃פ H8064 Article | Noun - masculine plural