When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
Cross References
1 Timothy 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
Proverbs 27:24for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.
Treasury of Scripture
Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
thou
Psalm 119:36,37
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness…
Jeremiah 22:17
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
that which
Genesis 42:3
And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Genesis 12:8
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
riches
Proverbs 27:24
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Job 1:14-17
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: …
Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
