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Proverbs 23:4
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Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,Because of your understanding, cease!
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your consideration of it.
Take not ouer great trauayle to be riche, beware of suche a purpose.
Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease!
Do not labor to be rich, cease from your own understanding.
Don't ruin your health trying to get rich. If you are smart, you will give it up.
Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Labour not to bee rich: cease from thine owne wisedome.
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
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 [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.
Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
Don't weary yourself to be rich; Cease from your own wisdom.
Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.
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Give up trying so hard to get rich.Don't exhaust yourself in pursuit of wealth; be smart enough to desist.
Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.
Do not quarrel with a rich man; but keep away from him wisely.
Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
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.
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 wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist.
Do not toil to get wealth, of thine own understanding, forbear:
Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
Do not tire in order to become rich; out of your understanding, may you desist.
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth; Stop dwelling on it.
Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich; be wise enough to control yourself.
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Be wise enough not to wear yourself out trying to get rich.Don't wear yourself out to get rich; stop giving your attention to it.
Nyle thou trauele to be maad riche, but sette thou mesure to thi prudence.
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be wise enough to desist.
Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
Contextual Overview
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
By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."
I will give the whole land of Canaan—the land where you are now residing—to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God."
Abraham bowed before the local people
and said to Ephron in their hearing, "Hear me, if you will. I pay to you the price of the field. Take it from me so that I may bury my dead there."
So Abraham agreed to Ephron's price and weighed out for him the price that Ephron had quoted in the hearing of the sons of Heth—400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.
Jacob said to Pharaoh, "All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors."
It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.
His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field Abraham purchased as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.
The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.
For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
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 אל תיגע "ne fatiges", Mercerus, Junius Tremellius "ne hiascas", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Cease from thine own wisdom - i. e., “Cease from the use of what is in itself most excellent, if it only serves to seek after wealth, and so ministers to evil.” There is no special contrast between “thine own wisdom” 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. — בינתך 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.
