the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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.
If thou art poor, measure not thyself with a rich man; but refrain thyself in thy wisdom.
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.
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
In the sweat of thy face, shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground, because therefrom, wast thou taken, - For, dust, thou art, And, unto dust, shalt thou return.
And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land of thy sojournings - all the land of Canaan, for an age-abiding possession - And I will be to them a God.
So Abraham boweth himself down, before the people of the land:
and spake unto Ephron in the ears of the people of the land saying, Only if, thou, wouldst, hear me, - I have given the silver of the field Take it of me, That I may bury my dead here.
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver of which he had spoken in the ears of the sons of Heth, - four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant,
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years, - Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.
in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah which is over against Mamre, in the land of Canaan, - which Abraham bought, along with the field, from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace: -
so his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, - which Abraham bought - with the field - for a possession of a buryingplace from Ephron the Hittite over against Mamre.
The land moreover shall not be sold beyond recovery, for, mine, is the land, - for, sojourners and settlers, ye are with me.
for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers, - like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.
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.
