Proverbs 28:22 (BSB)

A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.

From Proverbs 28. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 28:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 28:22: Here again Solomon shows the sin and folly of those that will be rich; they are resolved that they will be so, per fas, per nefas - right or wrong; they will be so with all speed; they are getting hastily an estate. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 28:22: He that hasteth to be rich,.... As every man that is eagerly desirous of riches is; he would be rich at once (z), 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 rich (a); see Ti1 6:9...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 28:22: (Compare Pro 28:20). evil eye--in the general sense of Pro 23:6, here more specific for covetousness (compare Pro 22:9; Mat 20:15). poverty . . . him--by God's providence.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 28:22: He that hasteneth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. (l) Meaning, he that is covetous.