Proverbs 28:21-23
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
21 To show partiality is never good:(A)
for even a morsel of bread one may do wrong.[a]
22 Misers hurry toward wealth,
not knowing that want is coming toward them.[b]
23 Whoever rebukes another wins more favor
than one who flatters with the tongue.
Footnotes
- 28:21 Cf. 24:23. Verse 21b warns that even in a light matter one must remain impartial.
- 28:22 “Bad of eye” is the Hebrew idiom for miserly. Misers fail to see that poverty is hurrying toward them because of their wrong attitude toward wealth. Because misers are “bad of eye,” they do not see the danger.
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