“Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 23 contains 35 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.