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New Living Translation

Proverbs 28:22

Greedy people try to get rich quick but don't realize they're headed for poverty.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Riches;   The Topic Concordance - Evil;   Haste;   Poverty;   Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Covetousness;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Poor and Poverty, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Eye;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Trade and Commerce;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Evil Eye;   Poverty;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
A man with an evil eye hurries after wealthAnd does not know that want will come upon him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth And does not know that want will come upon him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that wyll be riche all to soone, hath an euyll eye: and considereth not that pouertie shall come vpon hym.
Darby Translation
He that hath an evil eye hasteth after wealth, and knoweth not that poverty shall come upon him.
New King James Version
A man with an evil eye hastens after riches, And does not consider that poverty will come upon him.
Literal Translation
A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth, but he does not know that poverty will come on him.
Easy-to-Read Version
Selfish people only want to get rich. They do not realize that they are very close to being poor.
World English Bible
A stingy man hurries after riches, And doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
King James Version (1611)
He that hasteth to bee rich, hath an euill eye, and considereth not that pouerty shall come vpon him.
King James Version
He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He that will be rich all to soone, hath an euell eye, and considereth not, that pouerte shall come vpon him.
THE MESSAGE
A miser in a hurry to get rich doesn't know that he'll end up broke.
Amplified Bible
He who has an evil and envious eye hurries to be rich And does not know that poverty will come upon him.
American Standard Version
He that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.
Bible in Basic English
He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.
Update Bible Version
he that has an evil eye hurries after riches, And does not know that want shall come on him.
Webster's Bible Translation
He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
New English Translation
The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.
Contemporary English Version
Don't be selfish and eager to get rich— you will end up worse off than you can imagine.
Complete Jewish Bible
He who is greedy rushes after riches, not knowing that want will overtake him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A man with a wicked eye hasteth to riches, and knoweth not, that pouertie shall come vpon him.
George Lamsa Translation
He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and considers not that poverty shall come upon him.
Hebrew Names Version
A stingy man hurries after riches, And doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that hath an evil eye hasteneth after riches, and knoweth not that want shall come upon him.
New Life Bible
A man with a sinful eye hurries to be rich. He does not know that he will be in need.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The words of cunning knaves are soft; but they smite even to the inmost parts of the bowels.
English Revised Version
He that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, and knoweth not that want shall come upon him.
Berean Standard Bible
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
New Revised Standard
The miser is in a hurry to get rich and does not know that loss is sure to come.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A man, hasting to be rich, hath an evil eye, and knoweth not when want may overtake him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.
Lexham English Bible
He who hurries for wealth is a man with an evil eye, but he does not know that poverty will come upon him.
English Standard Version
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
New American Standard Bible
A person with an evil eye hurries after wealth And does not know that poverty will come upon him.
New Century Version
Selfish people are in a hurry to get rich and do not realize they soon will be poor.
Good News Translation
Selfish people are in such a hurry to get rich that they do not know when poverty is about to strike.
Christian Standard Bible®
A greedy man is in a hurry for wealth; he doesn't know that poverty will come to him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A man that hastith to be maad riche, and hath enuye to othere men; woot not that nedinesse schal come on hym.
Revised Standard Version
A miserly man hastens after wealth, and does not know that want will come upon him.
Young's Literal Translation
Troubled for wealth [is] the man [with] an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

Contextual Overview

22 Greedy people try to get rich quick but don't realize they're headed for poverty.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that hasteth: etc. Heb. that hath an evil eye

hasteth to be rich: Proverbs 28:20, 1 Timothy 6:9

an evil: Proverbs 23:6, Matthew 20:15, Mark 7:22

and: Genesis 13:10-13, Genesis 19:17, Job 20:18-22, Job 27:16, Job 27:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 15:9 - thine eye Deuteronomy 28:54 - his eye Joshua 7:21 - I saw Proverbs 10:22 - he Proverbs 19:2 - and Proverbs 20:21 - gotten Proverbs 21:5 - of every Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Mark 14:11 - and promised Luke 11:34 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 12:8
After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the Lord , and he worshiped the Lord .
Genesis 14:20
And blessed be God Most High, who has defeated your enemies for you." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the goods he had recovered.
Genesis 21:33
Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he worshiped the Lord , the Eternal God.
Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.
Genesis 28:15
What's more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you."
Genesis 28:17
But he was also afraid and said, "What an awesome place this is! It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven!"
Genesis 28:22
And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me."
Genesis 33:20
And there he built an altar and named it El-Elohe-Israel.
Genesis 35:1
Then God said to Jacob, "Get ready and move to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother, Esau."
Genesis 35:7
Jacob built an altar there and named the place El-bethel (which means "God of Bethel"), because God had appeared to him there when he was fleeing from his brother, Esau.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that hasteth to be rich,.... As every man that is eagerly desirous of riches is; he would be rich at once z, 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 a; see 1 Timothy 6:9; 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;

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.

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

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The covetous temper leads not only to dishonesty, but to the “evil eye” of envy; and the temper of grudging, carking care, leads him to poverty.


 
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