The man with an evil eye races toward wealth and does not see want catching up with him.
Solomon returns to the hasty rich: A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth and does not know that want will come upon him (v. 22). The term evil eye here in Proverbs 28:22 names a specific posture.
A man with an evil eye. The phrase names the calculating, stingy, grasping look of a man whose eyes are always counting. His vision is consumed by what he might acquire. He never sees what is freely given.
Hastens after wealth and does not know that want will come upon him. His haste blinds him to the consequences he is racing toward. He does not see his own future. The verse names the eventual reality: the man who chases wealth in this manner ends up in lack. Want, the very thing he was trying to escape, catches up to him by the very speed of his pursuit.
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Proverbs 28:22 meaning
Solomon returns to the hasty rich: A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth and does not know that want will come upon him (v. 22). The term evil eye here in Proverbs 28:22 names a specific posture.
A man with an evil eye. The phrase names the calculating, stingy, grasping look of a man whose eyes are always counting. His vision is consumed by what he might acquire. He never sees what is freely given.
Hastens after wealth and does not know that want will come upon him. His haste blinds him to the consequences he is racing toward. He does not see his own future. The verse names the eventual reality: the man who chases wealth in this manner ends up in lack. Want, the very thing he was trying to escape, catches up to him by the very speed of his pursuit.