Proverbs 28:22

In 11 translations

BSB

A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.Hebrew A man whose eye is evil

KJV

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.hasteth…: or, hath and evil eye hasteth to be rich

WEB

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

ASV

He that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.

LSV

The man [with] an evil eye [is] troubled for wealth, || And he does not know that want meets him.

YLT

Troubled for wealth [is] the man [with] an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

DBY

He that hath an evil eye hasteth after wealth, and knoweth not that poverty shall come upon him.

DRC

A man, that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.

GNV

A man with a wicked eye hasteth to riches, and knoweth not, that pouertie shall come vpon him.

JPS

He that hath an evil eye hasteneth after riches, and knoweth not that want shall come upon him.

LXXE

An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.

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Original-language editions

WLC

נִֽבֳהָ֥ל לַה֗וֹן אִ֭ישׁ רַ֣ע עָ֑יִן וְלֹֽא־יֵ֝דַע כִּי־חֶ֥סֶר יְבֹאֶֽנּוּ׃

LXX-Br

Σπεύδει πλουτεῖν ἀνὴρ βάσκανος, καὶ οὐκ οἶδεν ὅτι ἐλεήμων κρατήσει αὐτοῦ.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 1 Timothy 6:9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
• Proverbs 23:6Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
• Proverbs 28:20A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
• Job 27:16–17Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay, what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
• Matthew 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
• Job 20:18–22He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading. For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build. Because his appetite is never…
• Genesis 19:17As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
• Genesis 13:10–13And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) So Lot…
• Mark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

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