امثال سليمان 23:5

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5 آیا چشمان‌ خود را بر آن‌ خواهی‌ دوخت‌ كه‌ نیست‌ می‌باشد؟ زیرا كه‌ دولت‌ البته‌ برای‌ خود بالها می‌سازد، و مثل‌ عقاب‌ در آسمان‌ می‌پرد.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou: Psalms 119:36, Psalms 119:37, Jeremiah 22:17, 1 John 2:16

set thine eyes upon: Heb. cause thine eyes to fly upon, etc. "He expresses it in such a way," says Abp. Tillotson, "as if a rich man sat brooding over an estate till it was fledged, and gotten itself wings to fly away."

that which: Genesis 42:36, Ecclesiastes 1:2, Ecclesiastes 12:8, Isaiah 55:2, 1 Corinthians 7:29-31

riches: Proverbs 27:24, Job 1:14-17, Psalms 39:6, Ecclesiastes 5:13, Ecclesiastes 5:14, Matthew 6:19, 1 Timothy 6:17, James 5:1, James 5:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:23 - General 1 Kings 14:26 - the shields of gold 2 Kings 20:13 - there was nothing Job 9:26 - as the eagle Job 31:25 - rejoiced Job 39:27 - the eagle Psalms 49:6 - trust Psalms 62:10 - set Proverbs 4:25 - General Proverbs 17:24 - the eyes Proverbs 27:20 - so Proverbs 30:8 - Remove Ecclesiastes 1:3 - profit Ecclesiastes 2:10 - whatsoever Ecclesiastes 5:11 - what Isaiah 39:4 - All that Jeremiah 17:11 - shall leave Jeremiah 39:12 - look well to him Ezekiel 28:4 - General Jonah 4:6 - So Matthew 13:22 - the deceitfulness Mark 4:19 - the deceitfulness Mark 10:24 - trust Luke 12:15 - Take Luke 12:19 - Soul Luke 16:9 - mammon Colossians 3:2 - Set

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?.... The Vulgate Latin version is,

"do not lift up thine eyes to riches which thou canst not have;''

riches no doubt are intended, and which may be said to be "not"; they are not the true riches, have only the shadow and appearance of riches; they are not lasting and durable; in a little time they will not be; they are perishing things, they have no substance or solidity in them; they are not satisfying; they do not make them happy; they are rather nonentities than realities; and therefore the eyes of the mind and the affections of the heart should not be set on them: it may be rendered, "wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon that which is not?" w denoting the intenseness of the mind, and the eagerness of the affections, and with what rapidity and force they move towards them. The Targum is,

"if thou fixest thine eyes on him, he shall not appear to thee;''

meaning the rich man: and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions. Ben Melech makes mention of other senses very different; according to R. Judah, the word signifies darkness, "wilt thou make thine eyes dark?" two according to others, signifies light, "wilt thou make thine eyes to shine?" and, according to Jarchi, "wilt thou double?", or shut thine eyes?

for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; or, "it in making makes itself wings" x; even that which is not, on which men cause their eyes to fly; no sooner are their eyes upon that, but that flies away from them like a bird with wings; see Hosea 9:11. Either men are taken from that, or that from them, and sometimes very swiftly and suddenly;

they fly away as an eagle towards heaven; the eagle flies very swiftly, none more swiftly; it flies towards heaven, out of sight, and out of reach, and out of call; so riches flee away to God, the original giver of them, from whence they came, and who is the sole disposer of them; they own him as the proprietor and distributor of them; and they flee to heaven as it were for fresh orders where they should be, and into whose hands they should come next; they flee away, so as not to be seen any more, and be recovered by those who have formerly enjoyed them.

w התעיף "numquid involare facies", Michaelis; "ut involent", Junius Tremellius "ut volent", Piscator; "ad sineves volare", Cocceius. x כי עשה יעשה "quis faciendo faciet", Montanus, Baynus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Set thine eyes - literally, as in the margin, i. e., “gaze eagerly upon;” and then we get an emphatic parallelism with the words that follow, “they fly away as an eagle toward heaven;” “certainly make themselves wings.”