5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
5 When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
5 Riches disappear in the blink of an eye; wealth sprouts wings and flies off into the wild blue yonder.
5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.
5 In the blink of an eye wealth disappears, for it will sprout wings and fly away like an eagle.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 23:5
Commentary on Proverbs 23:4-5
(Read Proverbs 23:4-5)
Be not of those that will be rich. The things of this world are not happiness and a portion for a soul; those that hold them ever so fast, cannot hold them always, cannot hold them long.