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

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

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

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20 A 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.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:21 Lit. recognize faces

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

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

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

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