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Proverbs 23:4
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Give up trying so hard to get rich.Bible Study Resources
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Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.
Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.
Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;because you know better, stop!
Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Don't ruin your health trying to get rich. If you are smart, you will give it up.
Do not weary yourself [with the overwhelming desire] to gain wealth; Cease from your own understanding of it.
Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.
Don't exhaust yourself in pursuit of wealth; be smart enough to desist.
Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
Labour not to bee rich: cease from thine owne wisedome.
If thou art poor, measure not thyself with a rich man; but refrain thyself in thy wisdom.
Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
Do not tire in order to become rich; out of your understanding, may you desist.
Do not labor to be rich, cease from your own understanding.
Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich; be wise enough to control yourself.
Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease!
Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough to know when to quit.
Do not work hard to be rich. Stop trying to get things for yourself.
Do not toil to get wealth, of thine own understanding, forbear:
Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
Do not quarrel with a rich man; but keep away from him wisely.
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Be wise enough not to wear yourself out trying to get rich.Do not weary yourself to gain wealth; Stop dwelling on it.
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Take not ouer great trauayle to be riche, beware of suche a purpose.
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist.
Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
Nyle thou trauele to be maad riche, but sette thou mesure to thi prudence.
Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be wise enough to desist.
Don't weary yourself to be rich; Cease from your own wisdom.
Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.
Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
Take not ouer greate trauayle and labor to be riche, bewarre of soch a purpose.
7 Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich; restrain yourself! Riches disappear in the blink of an eye; wealth sprouts wings and flies off into the wild blue yonder.
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your consideration of it.
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,Because of your understanding, cease!
Contextual Overview
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Give up trying so hard to get rich. 5 Your money flies away before you know it, just like an eagle suddenly taking off.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Labour: Proverbs 28:20, John 6:27, 1 Timothy 6:8-10
cease: Proverbs 3:5, Proverbs 26:12, Isaiah 5:21, Romans 11:25, Romans 12:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:23 - General Proverbs 1:19 - every Proverbs 20:21 - gotten Proverbs 28:11 - rich Ecclesiastes 1:3 - profit Ecclesiastes 7:16 - neither Ezekiel 28:4 - General Luke 12:15 - Take
Cross-References
You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil."
I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family forever, and I will be their God.
Once again, Abraham bowed down
and said to Ephron, "In front of these witnesses, I offer you the full price, so I can bury my wife. Please accept my offer."
Abraham accepted Ephron's offer and paid him the four hundred pieces of silver in front of everyone at the city gate. That's how Abraham got Ephron's property east of Hebron, which included the field with all of its trees, as well as Machpelah Cave at the end of the field.
Jacob answered, "I have lived only a hundred thirty years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine."
They took him to Canaan and buried him in Machpelah Cave, the burial place Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite.
No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me—it isn't your land, and you only live there for a little while.
We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.
Soon he will send me home to the world of the dead, where we all must go.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Labour not to be rich,.... In an immoderate over anxious way and manner, to a weariness, as the word u signifies, and even as to gape for breath men ought to labour, that they may have wherewith to support themselves and families, and give to others and: if they can, lay up for their children; but then persons should not toil and weary themselves to heap up riches when they know not who shall gather them and much less make use of indirect and illicit methods to obtain them; resolving to be rich at any rate: rather men should labour for durable riches, lay up treasure in heaven, seek those things which are above, and labour to be accepted of God both here and hereafter; which only is in Christ. The Targum is,
"do not draw nigh to a rich man;''
and so the Syriac version; to which agree the Septuagint and Arabic versions;
cease from thine own wisdom; worldly wisdom in getting; riches, as if this was the highest point of wisdom; do not be always laying schemes, forming projects, inventing new things in order to get money; or do not depend upon thine own wisdom and understanding and expect to be rich by means thereof; for bread is not always to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, Ecclesiastes 9:11. The Targum is,
"but by thine understanding depart from him;''
the rich man; and to the same purpose the Syriac and Arabic versions.
u ×× ×ª×××¢ "ne fatiges", Mercerus, Junius Tremellius "ne hiascas", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Cease from thine own wisdom - i. e., âCease from the use of what is in itself most excellent, if it only serves to seek after wealth, and so ministers to evil.â There is no special contrast between âthine own wisdomâ and that given from above, though it is of course implied that in ceasing from his own prudence the man is on the way to attain a higher wisdom.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 23:4. Labour not to be rich — Let not this be thy object. Labour to provide things honest in the sight of God and all men; and if thou get wealth, do not forget the poor, else God's curse will be a canker even in thy gold.
Cease from thine own wisdom. — ××× ×ª× binathecha, thy own understanding or prudence. The world says, "Get rich if thou canst, and how thou canst." Rem, si possis, recte; si non, quocunque modo rem; "Get a fortune honestly if thou canst; but if not, get one at all events." This is the devil's counsel, and well it is followed; but Solomon says, and God says, "Cease from thine own counsel." Thou hast an immortal soul, and shalt shortly appear before God. Lay up treasure for heaven, and be rich towards God.
