Proverbs 28:22
Envious people are in a rush to get rich; they don't realize they'll end up poor.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
In Context
21Showing favoritism isn't good, but some people will do wrong just for a piece of bread.
23Honest criticism is appreciated later far more than flattery.
Cross References
Genesis 19:17As soon as they were outside, one of the men said, “Run for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the valley! Run to the mountains otherwise you'll be destroyed!”
Job 27:16Even though they pile up silver like dust, and clothes like heaps of clay,
Proverbs 28:20If you're trustworthy, you'll be richly rewarded; but if you try to get rich quick, you won't go unpunished.
Mark 7:22greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, thoughtlessness—
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:22
21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress. Note, 1. It is a fundamental error in the administration of justice, and that which cannot but lead men to abundance of transgression, to consider the parties concerned more than the merits of the cause, so as to favour one because he is a gentleman, a scholar, my countryman, my old acquaintance, has formerly done me a kindness, or may do me one, or is of my party and persuasion, and to bear hard on the other party… Read the whole commentary →