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Set your eyes - literally, as in the margin, that is, “gaze eagerly upon;” and then we get an emphatic parallelism with the words that follo…

They fly away.— Rather, As an eagle that flies toward heaven, far beyond your reach.

Wilt you set your eyes upon that which is not ?
&c.] The Vulgate Latin version is, ``do not lift up thine eyes to ri…

Do not be among those who desire to be rich. The things of this world are not happiness and a portion for a soul; those who hold them ever so firml…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes