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Green's Literal Translation
Proverbs 28:20
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A faithful person will have many blessings,but one in a hurry to get richwill not go unpunished.
A faithful man is rich with blessings; But one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
A faithful person will abound with blessings, But one who hurries to be rich will not go unpunished.
A truthful person will have many blessings, but those eager to get rich will be punished.
A faithful (right-minded) man will abound with blessings, But he who hurries to be rich will not go unpunished.
A faithful man is rich with blessings; But one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
A faythfull man shall abound in blessings, and he that maketh haste to be riche, shall not be innocent.
A faithful man will abound with blessings,But he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
God blesses his loyal people, but punishes all who want to get rich quick.
A trustworthy person will receive many blessings, but one rushing to get rich will not go unpunished.
A faithful man aboundeth with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
People who can be trusted will have many blessings, but those who are just trying to get rich in a hurry will be punished.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but an evil man shall not be innocent.
Honest people will lead a full, happy life. But if you are in a hurry to get rich, you are going to be punished.
A man of faithfulness has abundant blessings, but he who hurries to become rich will not go unpunished.
A faithfull man is greatly to be commeded, but he that maketh to moch haist for to be riche, shal not be vngiltie.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings; But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.
A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.
A faithfull man shall abound with blessings: but hee that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.
A faythfull man shalbe fylled with blessinges, and he that maketh haste to be riche, shall not be vngyltie.
With much wood fire increases; but where there is not a double-minded man, strife ceases.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.
A feithful man schal be preisid myche; but he that hastith to be maad riche, schal not be innocent.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings; But he that hurries to be rich shall not be unpunished.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
A faithful person will have an abundance of blessings, but the one who hastens to gain riches will not go unpunished.
A faithful man will abound with blessings, But he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
The trustworthy person will get a rich reward, but a person who wants quick riches will get into trouble.
A faithful man will have many good things, but he who hurries to be rich will be punished for it.
The faithful will abound with blessings, but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.
A man of fidelity, aboundeth in blessings, but, one hasting to be rich, shall not be held innocent.
A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.
Committed and persistent work pays off; get-rich-quick schemes are ripoffs.
A faithful man will abound with blessings, But he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
faithful: Proverbs 20:6, 1 Samuel 22:14, Nehemiah 7:2, Psalms 101:6, Psalms 112:4-9, Luke 12:42, Luke 16:1, Luke 16:10-12, 1 Corinthians 4:2-5, Revelation 2:10, Revelation 2:13
but: Proverbs 28:22, Proverbs 13:11, Proverbs 20:21, Proverbs 23:4, 2 Kings 5:20-27, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10
innocent: or, unpunished, Proverbs 17:5, *marg.
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:23 - General Joshua 8:2 - only the spoil 2 Kings 22:7 - they dealt faithfully 2 Chronicles 34:12 - faithfully Proverbs 10:6 - Blessings Jeremiah 17:11 - he that
Cross-References
And Isaac called Jacob. And he blessed him and commanded him, and said to him, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
Go up, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban the brother of your mother.
And may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful, and add to you; and may you become an assembly of nations.
and that Jacob listened to his father and his mother, and went to Padan-aram.
And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.
And he dreamed. And, behold, a ladder was placed on the earth, its top reaching to the heavens. And, behold, the angels of God were going up and going down on it!
And, behold, I will be with you and will guard you in every place in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not forsake you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you.
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God is with me and keeps me in this way which I am going, and gives to me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
I am the God of Bethel, there where you anointed the pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Now rise up; go out of this land and go back to the land of your kindred.
And she vowed a vow, and said, O Jehovah of Hosts, if looking You will look upon the affliction of Your handmaid, and shall remember me, and not forget Your handmaid, and shall give to Your handmaid a seed of men, then I will give him to Jehovah all the days of his life; and a razor shall not go up on his head.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A faithful man shall abound with blessings,.... Or, "a man of faithfulness" u. A very faithful man, that is truly so; that is so in a moral sense; true to his work, makes good his promises, fulfils his contracts, abides by the obligations he lays himself under; is faithful in every trust reposed in him, be it greater or lesser matters, in every station in which it is, and throughout the whole course of his life. Such a man abounds with the blessings and praises of men; all value him, and speak well of him: and with the blessings of divine Providence; he is "much [in] blessings" w, as it may be rendered; as in receiving blessings from God, so in giving them to men; such a man is usually charitable and beneficent. And it may be understood of one that is faithful, in a spiritual and evangelic sense; for of such characters are the followers of the Lamb, Revelation 17:14. It is in the original, "a man of truths" x; one that has the truth of grace in him; that knows the grace of God in truth; with whom the truth of the Gospel is; who has learnt it, known it, embraced it, values it, and abides by it; and who has a concern with Christ, who is the truth, who is formed, lives, and dwells in his heart; of whom he has made a good profession, and holds it fast, and whom he cleaves unto. The character of "faithful" belongs both to the true ministers of Christ, who preach the pure Gospel, and the whole of it; who seek not to please men, but God; and not themselves, and their own glory, but the things of Christ, and his glory; and continue to do so in the face of all opposition: and to private Christians, the faithful in Christ Jesus; who truly believe in him, stand by his truths, abide by his ordinances, and are faithful to one another, and continue so till death: these abound with the blessings of the covenant of grace, with all spiritual blessings in Christ, with the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ; they have an abundance of grace in them, given them in conversion, faith, hope, love, humility, and many other graces, in the exercise of which they are made to abound; and they have an abundance of blessings of grace bestowed on them, pardon of sin, a justifying righteousness, adoption, meetness for and right unto eternal life; they have Christ, and all things along with him; so that they may be truly said to have all things, and abound;
but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent; he that is over anxious, and immoderately desirous of being rich, and pursues every method of obtaining his desires, with all his might and main; that labours night and day for it; though he takes no criminal nor unlawful methods, properly so called, nor does he do anything injurious to others, yet he is not innocent; that too much anxiety in him is criminal; nor is he free from covetousness; see Proverbs 23:4; and if he uses any unjust and unlawful means to acquire wealth, and resolves to be rich, right or wrong, "per fas, per nefas", he shall not be innocent, neither before God nor men: so the Targum renders it,
"he that runs into iniquity, that he may be rich;''
and indeed when a man hastily, or in a short time, becomes rich, though he cannot be directly charged with fraud and injustice, yet he is not innocent in the minds of men, or free from their suspicious and jealousies of him. A man that makes haste to be rich is opposed to him that is faithful and true to his word and contracts, and is the same that Juvenal y calls "avarus properans"; see 1 Timothy 6:9.
u איש אמונות "vir fidelitatum", Vatablus, Merceras, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis. w רב ברכות "multus benedictionibus", Montanus, Vatablus, Baynus, Michaeiis. x "Vir veritatum", Montanus. y Satyr. 14. v. 178.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Not the possession of wealth, nor even the acquisition of it, is evil, but the eager haste of covetousness.
Shall not be innocent - Better, as in the margin, in contrast with the many “blessings” of the “faithful.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 28:20. He that maketh haste to be rich — See Proverbs 13:11; Proverbs 20:21.
