Bible verse
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
Proverbs 23:4 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 23.
1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
2 and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.
3 Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
5 When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
KJV
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
ASV
Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.
ERV
Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
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