A moment in scripture
Proverbs 23:4
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Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
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The surrounding passage
- Proverbs 23:2
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
- Proverbs 23:3
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
- Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
- Proverbs 23:6
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.