Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
⛓ Read Proverbs 23 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Don't weary yourself to be rich... riches certainly sprout wings.' The warning against straining to be wealthy maps onto 'those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare.' The fleeting, ensnaring character of riches grounds vv.9-10.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Don't weary yourself to be rich... riches sprout wings like an eagle and fly away' — the transience of earthly wealth behind 'treasures on earth, where... thieves break through and steal.'
Medium confidenceThe charge that the false teachers 'suppose that godliness is a means of gain' anticipates the chapter's critique of money-driven religion and resonates with wisdom's warning against wearing oneself out to be rich. A faint forward link to the avarice motif developed in vv.9-10.
Low confidence