Proverbs 28:22
Good News Translation
Selfish people are in such a hurry to get rich that they do not know when poverty is about to strike.

New Revised Standard Version
The miser is in a hurry to get rich and does not know that loss is sure to come.

Contemporary English Version
Don't be selfish and eager to get rich--you will end up worse off than you can imagine.

New American Bible
Misers hurry toward wealth, not knowing that want is coming toward them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.

Proverbs 28:20 A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.

1 Timothy 6:9 For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

an evil

Proverbs 23:6 Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:

Matthew 20:15 Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good?

Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

and

Genesis 13:10-13 And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor. . . .

Genesis 19:17 And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

Job 20:18-22 He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer. . . .

Job 27:16,17 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay, . . .

Context
The Boldness of the Righteous
21He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth. 22A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.23He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.…
Cross References
Proverbs 21:5
The thoughts of the industrious always bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want.

Proverbs 22:16
He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.

Proverbs 23:6
Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:

Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.

Proverbs 28:21
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