Proverbs 23:5
5 When you set your eyes on it, it is gone . For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens .
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 23:5
Commentary on Proverbs 23:4-5
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Be not of those that will be rich. The things of this world are not happiness and a portion for a soul; those that hold them ever so fast, cannot hold them always, cannot hold them long.