Proverbs 28:22

Modern King James Version

He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and does not know that poverty will come upon him.

Cross References

Genesis 19:17

And it happened when they brought him outside, He said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, nor stay in all the plain. Escape to the mountain lest you be consumed.

Proverbs 21:5

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty.

Proverbs 22:16

He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his dainty foods;

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man shall overflow with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Matthew 20:15

Is it not lawful for me to do what I want with my own? Is your eye evil because I am good?

Mark 7:22

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

1 Timothy 6:9

But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.