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Do notאַלwear yourself outתִּיגַעto get rich;לְהַעֲשִׁירfrom your own understandingמִבִּינָתְךָdesist.חֲדָל
Proverbs 23:4
Study it in the app“Do not wear yourself out to get rich; from your own understanding desist.”
Don't wear yourself out to get rich: wealth grows wings and flies offGenerosity and Money
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 23:4, word by word
- wear yourself outתִּיגַעtiga
grow weary, toil
Grow weary, be tired from effort; also to toil, or to make another weary.
Where else “tiga” appears- to get richהַעֲשִׁירhaashir
make rich, become rich
Make rich; grow rich.
Where else “haashir” appears- from your own understandingבִּינָתְbinat
understanding
Understanding: the ability to comprehend and to tell one thing from another.
Where else “binat” appears- desistחֲדָלchadal
cease, stop
Stop doing something, cease; leave off.
Where else “chadal” appears
Translation note
The second line can be understood: “stop trusting in your own understanding,” or “with your understanding, desist.”
The context
3Do not crave his delicacies, for they are bread of lies.
4 · This verse (above)
5Will you make your eyes fly to it? It is gone! For it surely makes itself wings; like an eagle it flies to the heavens.