Proverbs 28:22

Modern

A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.

Traditional

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

Literal

A man of an evil eye is panicked for wealth, and he does not know that poverty will come upon him.

Latin

Vir qui festinat ditari, et aliis invidet, ignorat quod egestas superveniet ei.

Hebrew

English

A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.

Proverbs 23:6
Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
1 Timothy 6:9
Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
Matthew 20:15
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
Job 27:16–17
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
Mark 7:22
…greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
Job 20:18–22
He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
Genesis 19:17
As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
Genesis 13:10–13
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)