Holy Scripture
Proverbs 28:20
A church father on this verse
“"A man who hastens to be rich," etc. For surely, he who ambitiously seeks to increase wealth neglects sin, caught like birds, when he begins, eager for the bait of earthly things, he does not realize he is being strangled by the snare of sin; when he desires any goods of this present world, he does not know what losse…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20A man worthy of credit shall be much blessed: But the wicked shall not be unpunished.
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18He that walks justly is assisted: But he that walks in crooked ways shall be entangled therein.
19He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread: But he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty.
— Proverbs 28:20 —
21He that reverences not the persons of the just is not good: Such a one will sell a man for a morsel of bread.
22An envious man makes haste to be rich, And knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.