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John Gill's Exposition on Proverbs 28:22
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He that hasteth to be rich, etc.] As every man that is eagerly desirous of riches is; he would be rich at oncef795, and cannot wait with any patience in the ordinary course of means: [hath] an evil eye; on the substance of others, to get it, right or wrong; is an evil man, and takes evil methods to be richf796; see (<540609>1 Timothy 6:9,10); or an envious one; is an envious man; as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; he envies others, as the Vulgate Latin version, the riches of other men; he grudges everything that goes beside himself; and that makes him in haste to be rich, that he may be equal to or superior to others: or he is a sordid, avaricious, illiberal man, that will not part with anything for the relief, for others, and is greedy of everything to amass wealth to himself; an evil eye is opposed to a good or bountiful one, that is, to a man that is liberal and generous, (<202209>Proverbs 22:9 <402015>Matthew 20:15); and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him; for wealth gotten hastily, and especially wrongfully, diminishes, wastes, and comes to nothing in the end; it sometimes flies away as fast as it comes; it has wings to do the one, as well as the other: this the man in haste to be rich does not consider, or he would have taken another method; since this is not the true way of getting and keeping riches, but of losing them, and coming to want; (see <201311>Proverbs 13:11 20:21).
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