[a]Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings;
They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:5 Lit. Will you cause your eyes to fly upon it and it is not?

Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,(A)
    for they will surely sprout wings
    and fly off to the sky like an eagle.(B)

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