Holy Scripture
Proverbs 23:5
A church father on this verse
“Do not lift your eyes to riches, etc. Do not lift your mind to search the secrets of divinity, which you cannot penetrate. For these are open only to the heavenly citizens.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5If thou shouldest fix thine eye upon him, he will disappear; For wings like an eagle’s are prepared for him, And he returns to the house of his master.
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In context
3desire not his provisions; For these belong to a false life.
4If thou art poor, measure not thyself with a rich man; But refrain thyself in thy wisdom.
— Proverbs 23:5 —
6Sup not with an envious man, Neither desire thou his meats:
7So he eats and drinks As if anyone should swallow a hair, And do not bring him in to thyself, nor eat thy morsel with him: