Proverbs 28:22

22 The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them.

Proverbs 28:22 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
English Standard Version (ESV)
22 A stingy manhastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
New Living Translation (NLT)
22 Greedy people try to get rich quick but don’t realize they’re headed for poverty.
The Message Bible (MSG)
22 A miser in a hurry to get rich doesn't know that he'll end up broke.
American Standard Version (ASV)
22 he that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
22 A stingy person is in a hurry to get rich, not realizing that poverty is about to overtake him.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
22 A greedy man is in a hurry for wealth; he doesn't know that poverty will come to him.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
22 A man who won't share what he has wants to get rich. He doesn't know he is going to be poor.

Proverbs 28:22 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 28:22

He that hasteth to be rich
As every man that is eagerly desirous of riches is; he would be rich at once F26, and cannot wait with any patience in the ordinary course of means: [hath] an evil eye;
on the substance of others, to get it, right or wrong; is an evil man, and takes evil methods to be rich F1; see ( 1 Timothy 6:9 1 Timothy 6:10 ) ; or an envious one; is an envious man; as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; he envies others, as the Vulgate Latin version, the riches of other men; he grudges everything that goes beside himself; and that makes him in haste to be rich, that he may be equal to or superior to others: or he is a sordid, avaricious, illiberal man, that will not part with anything for the relief, for others, and is greedy of everything to amass wealth to himself; an evil eye is opposed to a good or bountiful one, that is, to a man that is liberal and generous, ( Proverbs 22:9 ) ( Matthew 20:15 ) ; and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him;
for wealth gotten hastily, and especially wrongfully, diminishes, wastes, and comes to nothing in the end; it sometimes flies away as fast as it comes; it has wings to do the one, as well as the other: this the man in haste to be rich does not consider, or he would have taken another method; since this is not the true way of getting and keeping riches, but of losing them, and coming to want; see ( Proverbs 13:11 ) ( 20:21 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F26 "Nam dives qui fieri vult, et cito vult fieri", Juvenal. Satyr. 14. v. 176.
F1 "Sed quae reverentia legum? quis metus, ant pudor est unquam properantis avari?" Juvenal, ib.

Proverbs 28:22 In-Context

20 A faithful person will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.
21 To show partiality is not good— yet a person will do wrong for a piece of bread.
22 The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them.
23 Whoever rebukes a person will in the end gain favor rather than one who has a flattering tongue.
24 Whoever robs their father or mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is partner to one who destroys.

Cross References 1

  • 1. ver 20; Proverbs 23:6
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