5 While your eyes are on it, does it fly away and is not? Indeed riches make wings for themselves And fly away to the heavens like a vulture."
Proverbs 23:5 Cross References - CLV
Genesis 42:36
36 And saying to them is Jacob, their father, "Me you bereave! Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin you will take! On me come all these things.
Job 1:14-17
14 And a messenger came to Job and said, The oxen were plowing, and the jennies were grazing at their sides,
15 when the Sabeans swooped down and took them. Then they smote the lads with the edge of the sword, yet I escaped, but I myself alone, to tell it to you.
16 This one was still speaking when another came and said, The fire of Elohim, it fell from the heavens, it consumed the flock and the lads, and it devoured them, yet I escaped, but I myself alone, to tell it to you.
17 This one was still speaking when another came and said, The Chaldeans, they formed three bands, and they emerged on the camels and took them. Then they smote the lads with the edge of the sword, yet I escaped, but I myself alone, to tell it to you.
Psalms 39:6
6 Yea, man walks about, merely an image; Yea, they clamor about in vain He piles up goods but does not know who will be gathering them in."
Psalms 119:36-37
Proverbs 27:24
24 For assets do not last for an eon, Nor does a treasure for generation after generation."
Ecclesiastes 1:2
2 Vanity of vanities, says the Assembler; Vanity of vanities, the whole is vanity."
Ecclesiastes 5:13-14
Ecclesiastes 12:8
8 Vanity of vanities, says the Assembler, The whole is vanity."
Isaiah 55:2
2 Why will you weigh out money for that which is not bread? And give your labor for that which gives no satisfaction? Hearken, yea hearken to Me, and eat what is good. And deliciousness in sleekness shall your soul enjoy."
Jeremiah 22:17
17 But your eyes and your heart are not, Except on your dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence."
Matthew 6:19
19 Do not hoard for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and corrosion are causing them to disappear, and where thieves are tunneling and stealing."
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
29 Now this I am averring, brethren, the era is limited; that, furthermore, those also having wives may be as not having them,
30 and those lamenting as not lamenting, and those rejoicing as not rejoicing, and those buying as not retaining,
31 and those using this world as not using it up. For the fashion of this world is passing by.
1 Timothy 6:17
17 Those who are rich in the current eon be charging not to be haughty, nor yet to rely on the dubiousness of riches, but on God, Who is tendering us all things richly for our enjoyment;"
James 5:1-2
1 John 2:16
16 for everything that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of living, is not of the Father, but is of the world."