Bible wisdom: When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky. Proverbs 23:5

The Book of Proverbs in the Bible severely warns about the danger of riches, and that if men want to build their lives on a good foundation they should not do so based on this apparent good. It is true that men have a soul and that therefore they naturally desire to be happy, and that riches contribute greatly to happiness, but this in the long run is mostly a deception for human reason. When this kind of superficial thinking prevails in society, murders, private wars, and corruption that leads to anarchy take hold. No one in such a context can live in peace and security, because money becomes the only commodity that buys loyalty and friendship, riches are essentially a scarce good. For riches, the Assyrian Empire invaded and destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel, and in turn, this great empire was destroyed by the Babylonian Empire for the same reason. The Bible, as the word of God in the world, ultimately invites men to free themselves from living for selfish motives and to make sin a way of acting.
This is why the Bible with its wisdom invites men to avoid selfish love, the love of riches, with these words:
"Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
be wise enough to restrain yourself.
When you glance at wealth, it disappears,
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky" Proverbs 23:4-5.
What the Book of Proverbs is ultimately teaching is that riches come and go just as quickly; in a changing world, riches do not provide true confidence, the God of money seduces and deceives those who do not fear God and go down the wrong path of life. The love of money is ultimately a misfortune.
But the opposite happens to those who fear God and follow the right path in life. The truly intelligent man knows how to focus his thoughts on true goods. Because the source of wealth in man, well-built wealth, is the product of the highest science, wisdom, the knowledge of the correct means of living. Those who build their lives on wisdom live in harmony with the ethical laws of the universe, and thus do not find stumbling blocks in their path, and this is the final advice of the Bible for men to achieve blessedness, the fullness of goods in man.

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