Proverbs 23:4
Good News Translation
Be wise enough not to wear yourself out trying to get rich.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist.

Contemporary English Version
Give up trying so hard to get rich.

New American Bible
Do not wear yourself out to gain wealth, cease to be worried about it;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.

labour

Proverbs 28:20 A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.

John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

1 Timothy 6:8-10 But having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content. . . .

cease

Proverbs 3:5 In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.

Proverbs 26:12 Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.

Isaiah 5:21 Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

Romans 11:25 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery (lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.

Romans 12:16 Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Context
True Riches
3Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit. 4Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.5Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.…
Cross References
Matthew 6:19
Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal.

Mark 4:19
And the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts after other things entering in choke the word, and it is made fruitless.

1 Timothy 6:9
For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

Hebrews 13:5
Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.

Proverbs 3:5
In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.

Proverbs 3:7
For it shall be health to thy navel, and moistening to thy bones.

Proverbs 15:27
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: but he that hateth bribes shall live. By mercy and faith sins are purged away: and by the fear of the Lord every one declineth from evil.

Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.

Proverbs 23:3
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