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20 The trustworthy will be richly blessed;
    but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.(A)

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22 Misers hurry toward wealth,
    not knowing that want is coming toward them.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 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.