Proverbs 23:5 Cross References - MLV

⁵ Will you set your eyes upon what is not? Because it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, You* have bereaved me of my sons. Joseph is not and Simeon is not and you* will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.

¹⁴ that there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, ¹⁵ and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away. Yes, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword and only I alone have escaped to tell you.
¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, The fire of God fell from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them and only I alone have escaped to tell you.
¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, The Chaldeans made three bands and fell upon the camels and have taken them away, yes and slain the servants with the edge of the sword and only I alone have escaped to tell you.

⁶ Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up and does not know who will gather them.

³⁶ Incline my heart to your testimonies and not to covetousness.
³⁷ Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity and give me life in your ways.

²⁴ Because riches are not everlasting. And does the crown endure to all generations?

² Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

¹³ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun; riches were kept by its owner to his evil. ¹⁴ And those riches perish by an evil task. And if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

⁸ Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity.

² Why do you* spend money for what is not bread and your* labor for what does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me and eat you* what is good and let your* soul delight itself in fatness.

¹⁷ But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness and for shedding innocent blood and for oppression and for violence, to do it.

¹⁹ Do not store up treasures for you upon the earth, where moth and rust ingest, and where thieves burrow through your^\'b0 wall and steal.

²⁹ But I am saying this, brethren, the time is limited, furthermore it is that both those who have wives may be as though they had none; ³⁰ and those who weep, as though not weeping, and those who rejoice, as though not rejoicing, and those who buy, as though not having; ³¹ and those who use this world, as though not making full use of it; for the fashion of this world is passing away.

¹⁷ Command the rich in this current age, not to be cavalier, nor to have hope on the uncertainty of riches, but have hope in the living God, who is richly providing to us all things toward enjoyment;

¹ Come now you rich, weep, howling in your miseries, in those which are coming upon you. ² Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.

¹⁶ Because all the things which are in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the self-importance of life, are not from the Father, but are from the world.