Proverbs 28:22

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A person with an evil eye hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for them.

Cross References

1 Timothy 6:9

Those who are determined to get rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful desires that drown humans into ruin and destruction.

Proverbs 23:6

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful person is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

Mark 7:22

adultery, greed, evil, deceit, sensuality, envious eyes, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Matthew 20:15

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want with what I own? Or is your eye envious, because I am generous?’

Genesis 19:17

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

Proverbs 21:5

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

Proverbs 22:16

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.