Strong's Hebrew English Morphology   [התעוף] [hă-ṯā-‘ūp̄ - Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular V-Qal-Imperf-2ms   ḵ]   5774 [e] (הֲתָ֤עִיף) (hă-ṯā-‘îp̄ Will you set V-Hifil-Imperf-2ms   q)   5869 [e] עֵינֶ֥יךָ ‘ê-ne-ḵā your eyes N-cdc | 2ms   בּ֗וֹ bōw, on that Prep | 3ms 369 [e] וְֽאֵ֫ינֶ֥נּוּ wə-’ê-nen-nū and which is not Conj-w | Adv | 3ms 3588 [e] כִּ֤י kî for Conj 6213 [e] עָשֹׂ֣ה ‘ā-śōh surely V-Qal-InfAbs 6213 [e] יַעֲשֶׂה־ ya-‘ă-śeh- [riches] make V-Qal-Imperf-3ms   לּ֣וֹ lōw themselves Prep | 3ms 3671 [e] כְנָפַ֑יִם ḵə-nā-p̄a-yim; wings N-fd 5404 [e] כְּ֝נֶ֗שֶׁר kə-ne-šer, like an eagle Prep-k | N-ms   [ועיף] [wə-‘ā-yêp̄ - Conjunctive waw :: Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Conj-w | V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms   ḵ]   5774 [e] (יָע֥וּף) (yā-‘ūp̄ they fly away V-Qal-Imperf-3ms   q)   8064 [e] הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃ haš-šā-mā-yim. [toward] heaven Art | N-mp   פ p̄ - Punc

New American Standard Bible
When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

King James Bible
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

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Psalm 119:36,37 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness…

Jeremiah 22:17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and …

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust …

set thine eyes upon or '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 42:3 And Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy corn in Egypt.

Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the …

Genesis 12:8 And he removed from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and …

Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor …

1 Corinthians 7:29-31 But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains, that both …

riches

Proverbs 27:24 For riches are not for ever: and does the crown endure to every generation?

Job 1:14-17 And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, …

Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted …

Ecclesiastes 5:13,14 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches …

Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust …

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, …

James 5:1,2 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall …

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