Proverbs 28:20-22

International Children’s Bible

²⁰A truthful man will have many blessings.
But those eager to get rich will be punished.

²¹It is not good for a judge to take sides.
But some will sin for just a piece of bread.

²²A selfish person is in a hurry to get rich.
He does not realize his selfishness will make him poor.

Proverbs 28:20-22

New International Version

²⁰A faithful person will be richly blessed,
but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.^(A)

²¹To show partiality^(B) is not good^(C)—
yet a person will do wrong for a piece of bread.^(D)

²²The stingy are eager to get rich
and are unaware that poverty awaits them.^(E)

²⁰A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

²¹To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

²²He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

²⁰A faithful man will abound with blessings,
^(A)But he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

²¹^(B)To ^[a]show partiality is not good,
^(C)Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.

²²A man with an evil eye hastens after riches,
And does not consider that ^(D)poverty will come upon him.

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