the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Brenton's Septuagint
Proverbs 23:4
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Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;because you know better, stop!
Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth; Stop dwelling on it.
Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich; be wise enough to control yourself.
Do not weary yourself [with the overwhelming desire] to gain wealth; Cease from your own understanding of it.
Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,Because of your understanding, cease!
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
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Give up trying so hard to get rich.Don't exhaust yourself in pursuit of wealth; be smart enough to desist.
Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
Don't ruin your health trying to get rich. If you are smart, you will give it up.
Do not quarrel with a rich man; but keep away from him wisely.
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Be wise enough not to wear yourself out trying to get rich.Do not tire in order to become rich; out of your understanding, may you desist.
Do not labor to be rich, cease from your own understanding.
Take not ouer greate trauayle and labor to be riche, bewarre of soch a purpose.
Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.
Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
Labour not to bee rich: cease from thine owne wisedome.
Take not ouer great trauayle to be riche, beware of suche a purpose.
Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
Nyle thou trauele to be maad riche, but sette thou mesure to thi prudence.
Don't weary yourself to be rich; Cease from your own wisdom.
Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.
Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease!
Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough to know when to quit.
Do not work hard to be rich. Stop trying to get things for yourself.
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist.
Do not toil to get wealth, of thine own understanding, forbear:
Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be wise enough to desist.
Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
7 Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich; restrain yourself! Riches disappear in the blink of an eye; wealth sprouts wings and flies off into the wild blue yonder.
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your consideration of it.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Labour: Proverbs 28:20, John 6:27, 1 Timothy 6:8-10
cease: Proverbs 3:5, Proverbs 26:12, Isaiah 5:21, Romans 11:25, Romans 12:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:23 - General Proverbs 1:19 - every Proverbs 20:21 - gotten Proverbs 28:11 - rich Ecclesiastes 1:3 - profit Ecclesiastes 7:16 - neither Ezekiel 28:4 - General Luke 12:15 - Take
Cross-References
Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou sojournest, even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God.
And Abraam did obeisance before the people of the land.
And he said in the ears of Ephron before the people of the land, Since thou art on my side, hear me; take the price of the field from me, and I will bury my dead there.
And Abraam hearkened to Ephron, and Abraam rendered to Ephron the money, which he mentioned in the ears of the sons of Chet, four hundred didrachms of silver approved with merchants.
And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned.
in the double cave which is opposite Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, the cave which Abraam bought of Ephron the Chettite, for a possession of a sepulchre.
So his sons carried him up into the land of Chanaan, and buried him in the double cave, which cave Abraam bought for possession of a burying place, of Ephrom the Chettite, before Mambre.
And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because ye are strangers and sojourners before me.
for we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Labour not to be rich,.... In an immoderate over anxious way and manner, to a weariness, as the word u signifies, and even as to gape for breath men ought to labour, that they may have wherewith to support themselves and families, and give to others and: if they can, lay up for their children; but then persons should not toil and weary themselves to heap up riches when they know not who shall gather them and much less make use of indirect and illicit methods to obtain them; resolving to be rich at any rate: rather men should labour for durable riches, lay up treasure in heaven, seek those things which are above, and labour to be accepted of God both here and hereafter; which only is in Christ. The Targum is,
"do not draw nigh to a rich man;''
and so the Syriac version; to which agree the Septuagint and Arabic versions;
cease from thine own wisdom; worldly wisdom in getting; riches, as if this was the highest point of wisdom; do not be always laying schemes, forming projects, inventing new things in order to get money; or do not depend upon thine own wisdom and understanding and expect to be rich by means thereof; for bread is not always to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, Ecclesiastes 9:11. The Targum is,
"but by thine understanding depart from him;''
the rich man; and to the same purpose the Syriac and Arabic versions.
u אל תיגע "ne fatiges", Mercerus, Junius Tremellius "ne hiascas", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Cease from thine own wisdom - i. e., “Cease from the use of what is in itself most excellent, if it only serves to seek after wealth, and so ministers to evil.” There is no special contrast between “thine own wisdom” and that given from above, though it is of course implied that in ceasing from his own prudence the man is on the way to attain a higher wisdom.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 23:4. Labour not to be rich — Let not this be thy object. Labour to provide things honest in the sight of God and all men; and if thou get wealth, do not forget the poor, else God's curse will be a canker even in thy gold.
Cease from thine own wisdom. — בינתך binathecha, thy own understanding or prudence. The world says, "Get rich if thou canst, and how thou canst." Rem, si possis, recte; si non, quocunque modo rem; "Get a fortune honestly if thou canst; but if not, get one at all events." This is the devil's counsel, and well it is followed; but Solomon says, and God says, "Cease from thine own counsel." Thou hast an immortal soul, and shalt shortly appear before God. Lay up treasure for heaven, and be rich towards God.
