Proverbs 28:22

Proverbs 28:22 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

22The stingy are eager to get rich

and are unaware that poverty awaits them.

22A person with an evil eye hurries after wealth

And does not know that poverty will come upon him.

22A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth

And does not know that want will come upon him.

22He who has an evil and envious eye hurries to be rich

And does not know that poverty will come upon him. [Prov 21:5; 28:20]

22A stingy man28:22 Hebrew A man whose eye is evil hastens after wealth

and does not know that poverty awaits him.

22Those who won’t share what they have want to get rich.

They don’t know they are going to be poor.