Proverbs 28:22
A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.
World Messianic Bible
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
21To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
23One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.
Cross References
Genesis 19:17It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
Proverbs 28:20A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
Mark 7:22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
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 →