the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 23:5
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Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flies toward heaven.
Wealth can vanish in the wink of an eye. It can seem to grow wings and fly away like an eagle.
When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
When you set your eyes on wealth, it is [suddenly] gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies to the heavens.
When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Reise not thin iyen to richessis, whiche thou maist not haue; for tho schulen make to hem silf pennes, as of an egle, and tho schulen flee in to heuene.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
Your money flies away before you know it, just like an eagle suddenly taking off.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
If you make your eyes rush at it, it's no longer there! For wealth will surely grow wings, like an eagle flying off to the sky.
wilt 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.
In the blink of an eye, money can disappear, as if it grew wings and flew away like a bird.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone; {P}
Wilt thou set thine eyes vpon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselues wings, they fly away as an Eagle toward heauen.
When you set your eyes upon it, it is gone. For sure, riches make themselves wings like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes wings to itself, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.
For if you should fix your eye on him, you cannot see him; for he makes for himself wings like an eagle and flies away toward the sky.
Your money can be gone in a flash, as if it had grown wings and flown away like an eagle.
Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.
Lift 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.
When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes to itself wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Wylt thou set thyne eye vpon the thing which sodenly vanisheth away? For riches make them selues wynges, and take their flight lyke an Egle into the ayre.
If thou shouldest fix thine eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle’s are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.
As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,for it makes wings for itselfand flies like an eagle to the sky.
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Your eyes will alight on it, but there is nothing to it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted in the heavens.
Will your eyes fly on it? And it is not! For surely it makes wings for itself, it flies into the heavens like an eagle.
For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
Why wilt thou set thine eye vpon ye thinge, which sodenly vanisheth awaye? For riches make them selues wynges, and take their flight like an Aegle in to ye ayre.
When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.
When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
Do you make your eyes fly up to see it? But it is not there!Because it certainly makes itself wingsLike an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thou: Psalms 119:36, Psalms 119:37, Jeremiah 22:17, 1 John 2:16
set thine eyes upon: Heb. cause thine eyes to fly upon, etc. "He expresses it in such a way," says Abp. Tillotson, "as if a rich man sat brooding over an estate till it was fledged, and gotten itself wings to fly away."
that which: Genesis 42:36, Ecclesiastes 1:2, Ecclesiastes 12:8, Isaiah 55:2, 1 Corinthians 7:29-31
riches: Proverbs 27:24, Job 1:14-17, Psalms 39:6, Ecclesiastes 5:13, Ecclesiastes 5:14, Matthew 6:19, 1 Timothy 6:17, James 5:1, James 5:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:23 - General 1 Kings 14:26 - the shields of gold 2 Kings 20:13 - there was nothing Job 9:26 - as the eagle Job 31:25 - rejoiced Job 39:27 - the eagle Psalms 49:6 - trust Psalms 62:10 - set Proverbs 4:25 - General Proverbs 17:24 - the eyes Proverbs 27:20 - so Proverbs 30:8 - Remove Ecclesiastes 1:3 - profit Ecclesiastes 2:10 - whatsoever Ecclesiastes 5:11 - what Isaiah 39:4 - All that Jeremiah 17:11 - shall leave Jeremiah 39:12 - look well to him Ezekiel 28:4 - General Jonah 4:6 - So Matthew 13:22 - the deceitfulness Mark 4:19 - the deceitfulness Mark 10:24 - trust Luke 12:15 - Take Luke 12:19 - Soul Luke 16:9 - mammon Colossians 3:2 - Set
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?.... The Vulgate Latin version is,
"do not lift up thine eyes to riches which thou canst not have;''
riches no doubt are intended, and which may be said to be "not"; they are not the true riches, have only the shadow and appearance of riches; they are not lasting and durable; in a little time they will not be; they are perishing things, they have no substance or solidity in them; they are not satisfying; they do not make them happy; they are rather nonentities than realities; and therefore the eyes of the mind and the affections of the heart should not be set on them: it may be rendered, "wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon that which is not?" w denoting the intenseness of the mind, and the eagerness of the affections, and with what rapidity and force they move towards them. The Targum is,
"if thou fixest thine eyes on him, he shall not appear to thee;''
meaning the rich man: and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions. Ben Melech makes mention of other senses very different; according to R. Judah, the word signifies darkness, "wilt thou make thine eyes dark?" two according to others, signifies light, "wilt thou make thine eyes to shine?" and, according to Jarchi, "wilt thou double?", or shut thine eyes?
for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; or, "it in making makes itself wings" x; even that which is not, on which men cause their eyes to fly; no sooner are their eyes upon that, but that flies away from them like a bird with wings; see Hosea 9:11. Either men are taken from that, or that from them, and sometimes very swiftly and suddenly;
they fly away as an eagle towards heaven; the eagle flies very swiftly, none more swiftly; it flies towards heaven, out of sight, and out of reach, and out of call; so riches flee away to God, the original giver of them, from whence they came, and who is the sole disposer of them; they own him as the proprietor and distributor of them; and they flee to heaven as it were for fresh orders where they should be, and into whose hands they should come next; they flee away, so as not to be seen any more, and be recovered by those who have formerly enjoyed them.
w התעיף "numquid involare facies", Michaelis; "ut involent", Junius Tremellius "ut volent", Piscator; "ad sineves volare", Cocceius. x כי עשה יעשה "quis faciendo faciet", Montanus, Baynus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Set thine eyes - literally, as in the margin, i. e., “gaze eagerly upon;” and then we get an emphatic parallelism with the words that follow, “they fly away as an eagle toward heaven;” “certainly make themselves wings.”
