THEOSISProverbs 28:22Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.
נִֽבֳהָ֥ל לַה֗וֹן אִ֭ישׁ רַ֣ע עָ֑יִן וְלֹֽא־יֵ֝דַע כִּי־חֶ֥סֶר יְבֹאֶֽנּוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Tim 6:9For 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.
- Prov 23:6Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
- Prov 28:20A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.
- Gen 19:17And 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.
- Mark 7:22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
- Gen 13:10And 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.
- Gen 13:13And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.
- Job 20:18He 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.